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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead
Motivation, Ideas, Progress
Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Alfred North Whitehead
Errors, Progress, Pay
"Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead
Attitude, Party, Progress
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead
Future, Civilization, Progress

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead
Progress, Evolution, Language
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Length Of Life, Progress
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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