Friday, May 20, 2022

New ideas

The vitality of thought is in adventure.
    Ideas won't keep.
        Something must be done about them.
When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor,
    live for it, and, if need be, die for it.

         Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

 

 

 

 

 

 

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