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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“Fate in Greek Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. I, The Origins of Modern Science (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Whitehead names Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides as the 'pilgrim fathers' of the scientific imagination.
Citation: "Fate in Greek Tragedy becomes the order of nature in modern thought" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. I, The Origins of Modern Science (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q3)
