It [philosophy] builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches.


Science and the Modern World, Preface (p. x), The Macmillan Co. 1925

Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It [philosophy] builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches.

It [philosophy] builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches.

It [philosophy] builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches.

It [philosophy] builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches.