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"Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being. The administrator with a sense for style hates waste; the engineer with a sense for style economises his material; the artisan with a sense of style prefers good work. Style is the ultimate morality of mind."

Alfred North Whitehead (1861- 1947), British mathematician and philosopher.
As quoted by George Nelson in one of his notebooks.
Angelynn Grant, book review for Communication Arts, George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design, by Stanley Abercrombie, The MIT Press.

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"There have been proposals to ”improve” design by converting into a kind of science. Those with even a smattering of recent history will remember that the same attempts were made in psychology and sociology. I suspect that such efforts are not so much an attempt to improve, but rather to get a free ride on the enormous prestige science enjoys. Design is not science and it never will be."

George Nelson (1908- 1986)
Stanley Abercrombie, George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design, Foreword by Ettore Sottsass Jr., The Mit Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, p. 65.