Alfred Whitehead Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Alfred Whitehead
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“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
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“Without adventure civilization is in full decay”
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“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.”
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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
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“Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God”
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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language”
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“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike”
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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
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“The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.”
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