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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. III, The Century of Genius (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Whitehead's ironic summary of where seventeenth-century scientific philosophy leads once secondary qualities are assigned to the mind; it is the view he goes on to reject.
Citation: "Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. III, The Century of Genius (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q4)
