“More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science"
Context: More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.

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English mathematician and philosopher 1861–1947

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