It may be that civilisation will never recover from the bad climate which enveloped the introduction of machinery.
Alfred North Whitehead
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Science and the Modern World (1925); Exact wording and attribution checked. “Bad climate” means the social and intellectual atmosphere around industrialization, not weather or climate change.
- Science and the Modern World (1925)
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