PLATFORM/NORTH WHITEHEAD Alfred How Civilization Advances (1911)
PLATFORM / NORTH WHITEHEAD Alfred How Civilization Advances (1911)
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism … that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

— An Introduction to Mathematics

It is a profoundly erroneous truism … that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

— An Introduction to Mathematics