Advances Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“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