Alfred North Whitehead Quote

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. The practical source is the desire to direct our actions to achieve predetermined ends... The theoretical source is the desire to understand.


The Organisation of Thought, Chapter VI (p. 106), Greenwood Press Publishers. 1974, A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.


Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. The practical source is the desire to direct our actions to...

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. The practical source is the desire to direct our actions to...

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. The practical source is the desire to direct our actions to...

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source. The practical source is the desire to direct our actions to...