An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
Alfred North WhiteheadOur rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. 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 WhiteheadIt is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Alfred North WhiteheadEach human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
Alfred North Whitehead