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Alfred North Whitehead

English mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947).

Born February 15th, 1861 in Ramsgate. [ref]

Died December 30th, 1947 at 86 years old in Cambridge. [ref]

Occupations
mathematician, philosopher, physicist, theologian, writer

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde