Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Business, Danger, Fixed

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Science, Merit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Two, House Guests, Forget

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

• Our 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 Whitehead

  Past, Length Of Life, Progress

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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