Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
“When a business is bought, it is bought for its potential—for its future, not its past.”
Source: 1990s, Re-Creating the Corporation (1999), p. 133.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
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Source: prevale.net
Julian Huxley (1887–1975) English biologist, philosopher, author
Transhumanism (1957)
Context: As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before.
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Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) American politician
Source: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 175.