Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

With innovation, there is always risk.

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Risk is an essential part of progress.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.