Civilization advances by extending the number of important…

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics,…

— Robert Wachter

“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking…

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there…

— Walter Russell

The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort.…

— Herman Melville

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

— Charles Lindbergh

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

— Anonymous

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

— Cynthia Ozick

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Even as technology advances, we don't”

— Elliot Morgan

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and…

— Jonathan Trigell

I have done this before but I'll do it again, Please comment :) Thanks in advances…

— Unkown