• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

    Alfred North Whitehead: In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
    Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.197, Simon and Schuster