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

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

Alfred North Whitehead
Inspirational, Change, Art
Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead
Change, Art, Order
Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Alfred North Whitehead
Change, Real, Two
Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

Alfred North Whitehead
Change, Math, Two
Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.62, Open Road Media

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead
Change, Practice, Dumb
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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