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TL;DR: In a famous passage from his influential Science and the Modern World, Whitehead noted that "the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of a method of invention".
Abstract: HE RISE OF modern engineering design was one of those epoch-making T developments that transform human history. But it was, and still is, little noticed or understood outside the engineering fraternity. One of the few persons who did understand the consequences of design was Alfred North Whitehead. In a famous passage from his influential Science and the Modern World , Whitehead noted that "the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."' Quite often, this "invention" has been construed to be science itself. Actually, it is clear that Whitehead had in mind not science itself, but the linking of engineering design with science, quite another matter. For, following this just-quoted famous statement, Whitehead qualified it:
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