Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. XIII, Requisites for Social Progress (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Part of his warning about the professionalisation of knowledge in a world changing faster than a single lifetime.
Citation: "The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. XIII, Requisites for Social Progress (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q11)
