Alfred North Whitehead Quote

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.


Science and the Modern World (ed. Simon and Schuster, 1997) - ISBN: 9780684836393


If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas...

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas...

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas...

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas...