“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 North Whitehead

Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.

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English mathematician and philosopher 1861–1947

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