Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

英國哲學家、數學家懷特海(Alfred North Whitehead)

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

世界的悲劇就在於有想像力又缺乏經驗，而有經驗的人又缺乏想像力​。

(The aims of education, and other essays. p.93. )思辯性思考正可以幫助我們發揮思辯的想像力，又使我們對過往經驗有反省的能力，在邏輯思辯下，使知識趨向精準的結論，在不斷思辯下，使我們釐清誨暗面，進而趨向真理的開顯。