Battle Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— E.D. Hirsch Jr

“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

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

“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

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

— William McGregor Paxton

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

— George Santayana

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

“We have feet to move forward and brains to think and create; we need the both to invent new technologies and develop essential processes…

— John Taskinsoy

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan