"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. 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. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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.

Alfred Whitehead

 Business English Mathematician
Without adventure civilization is in full decay - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

Alfred Whitehead

 Adventure
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. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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.

Alfred Whitehead

 Existence
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred Whitehead

 Courage English Mathematician
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato

Alfred Whitehead

 
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God

Alfred Whitehead

 God
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Alfred Whitehead

 Human Nature
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 - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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

Alfred Whitehead

 Majority
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred Whitehead

 Art
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. - Alfred Whitehead Quotes

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.

Alfred Whitehead

 Knowledge
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