Alfred North Whitehead

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

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