- Lived:
- 1861–1947 · Ramsgate, England → Cambridge → London → Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Tradition:
- Process philosophy; mathematician turned metaphysician
- The Big Idea:
- Reality is not made of things that endure but of events that become — momentary pulses of experience that arise, absorb their whole past, and pass their achievement on.
- In their words:
- European philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato."
- If you remember one thing:
- He lived three intellectual lives — mathematician, philosopher of science, metaphysician — and in the last of them argued that the universe is not a collection of stuff but an ongoing act of creation.