Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
Alfred North WhiteheadYou think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
Alfred North WhiteheadThere are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.
Alfred North Whitehead