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" Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity for wandering. Its progressive thought and its progressive technology make the transition through time, from generation to generation, a true migration into uncharted seas of adventure. The very benefit... "
Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space ... - Page 217
1964 - 225 pages
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Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925

Alfred North Whitehead - 1925 - 328 pages
...however, all the virtues. We should even be satisfied if there is something odd enough to be interesting. Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity...science that it equips the future for its duties. The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity...
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Science and the Modern World: Lowell Lectures, 1925

Alfred North Whitehead - 1925 - 308 pages
...attention, and something great enough to command Modern science has imposed on humanity the neces-\ sity for wandering. Its progressive thought and its progressive...science that it equips the future for its duties. The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity...
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Models and Values: A Course of Reading for Students

Walter Clarke Phillips, William Garrett Crane, Frank Rawley Byers - 1928 - 556 pages
...however, all the virtues. We should even be satisfied if there is something odd enough to be interesting. Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity...science that it equips the future for its duties. The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity...
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Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 29

Oregon Historical Society - 1928 - 440 pages
...to concede a measure of this when he says, "Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity of wandering. Its progressive thought and its progressive...science that it equips the future for its duties." The social "wandering" incident to the introduction of the steam engine, power machinery and the factory...
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Models and Values: A Course of Reading for Students

Walter Clarke Phillips, William Garrett Crane, Frank Rawley Byers - 1928 - 560 pages
...however, all the virtues. We should even be satisfied if there is something odd enough to be interesting. Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity...disclose dangers. It is the business of the future to he dangerous ; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. The...
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Quality of Health Care--human Experimentation, 1973: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1973
...channels. "We must expect . . . that the future will disclose dangers," wrote Alfred North Whitebead. "It is the business of the future to be dangerous;...the merits of science that it equips the future for the duties." fUrprintrd From The loumal of //., Amenta* Medical Anociatinn February 19, 1996. Vol....
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Energy, Environment, Productivity: Proceedings of the First Symposium on ...

Jay Holmes - 1974 - 276 pages
...of our development. l would like to close with a quotation from Alfred North Whitehead. He said, "lt is the business of the future to be dangerous and...science that it equips the future for its duties." ln the immediate future, there will be less security and less stability than in the immediate past....
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The Uncertainties of Knowledge

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein - 2004 - 238 pages
...surroundings. (Pirenne 1931, 16, 19-20) The second is from the American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity...science that it equips the future for its duties. (Whitehead 1948, 125) I opened by saying that science is said to be under severe attack today. It is...
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Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins

Ian Abrahams - 2004 - 298 pages
...not my cup of tea at all.' Tracks and references: It is the Business of the Future to be Dangerous 'It is the business of the future to be dangerous,...science that it equips the future for its duties,' wrote mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) in Science and the Modern World (1925). Space...
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Science and the Modern World

Alfred North Whitehead - 1959 - 288 pages
...however, all the virtues. We should even be satisfied if there is something odd enough to be interesting. Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity...science that it equips the future for its duties. The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity...
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