Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ”

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ”

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ”

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ”

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ”

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ”

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. ”