Advances Quote by Robert Wachter

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

— 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

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

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

“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

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

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

— Anonymous

“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their…

— Rodney Stark

“When we are grasped by the vision of a center of value and power more luminous, more inclusive and more true than that to…

— James W. Fowler

“The true task of education, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned, is to abjure stale knowledge. “Knowledge does not keep any better than fish,” he said.…

— Howard Zinn