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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place”
Science and the Modern World, Preface (dated Harvard University, June 29, 1925) (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Whitehead suggests that the scientific mentality of the recent past may itself be a provincial limitation that later ages will see clearly.
Citation: "Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Preface (dated Harvard University, June 29, 1925) (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q1)
