Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
Alfred North WhiteheadDisputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
Alfred North WhiteheadNature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
Alfred North WhiteheadA race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead