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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. VI, The Nineteenth Century (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Whitehead's account of how systematic research turned scientific knowledge into technology.
Citation: "The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. VI, The Nineteenth Century (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q7)
