“The power of God is the worship He inspires…. The worship of God is not a rule of safety — it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.

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English mathematician and philosopher 1861–1947

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