The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
Alfred North WhiteheadTo see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
Alfred North Whitehead