‘Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.’
Science and the Modern World in the main consists of the Lowell Lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead in February 1925. Some slight expansions and additional matters were added in order to complete the theme of the book. In the book, Whitehead provided a comprehensive overview of some aspects of Western culture that have influenced and been influenced by the development of science.
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher. He is best known for his works in mathematical logic and his collaboration with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica.