“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.” PeopleWayChildrenArtFactsParentCareersTaughtRaisesPassionateFamily Life Author:Olivia Williams
“It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .” FactsFormInterestEqualUnionsPassionateDevotionAbstractNoveltyGeneralisation Book:Science and the Modern World Source: Science and the Modern World
“The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.” MenWorldMindHas BeensFactsFormInterestPrinciplesModernEqualRelationUnionsPassionatePracticalsDevotionAll TimeAbstractStubbornTemperamentNoveltyWeavingPhilosophicVehementGeneralisation Author:Alfred North Whitehead