| Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 255 lapas
...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...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battlethey are strictly limited in number, they... | |
| Sir Thomas Percy Nunn - 1914 - 654 lapas
...that they illustrate so clearly the " economy of thought " at which mathematics constantly aims. " Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." l Finally it should be noted that the word "equation" is avoided throughout Section I. There seem good... | |
| Paul Carus - 1914 - 666 lapas
...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...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle they are strictly 'Home University Library,... | |
| Thomas Percy Nunn, Sir Thomas Percy Nunn - 1914 - 760 lapas
...that they illustrate so clearly the " economy of thought " at which mathematics constantly aims. " Civilization advances by extending the number of important...operations which we can perform without thinking about them."1 Finally it should be noted that the word "equation" is avoided throughout Section I. There... | |
| Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1917 - 334 lapas
...mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations...which we can perform without thinking about them." performed can be done in half the time, more pleasantly, and with less exhaustion, then the longer... | |
| Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1918 - 336 lapas
...mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.'1 performed can be done in half the time, more pleasantly, and with less exhaustion, then the... | |
| Sir Thomas Percy Nunn, Thomas Percy Nunn - 1919 - 654 lapas
...that they illustrate so clearly the " economy of thought " at which mathematics constantly aims. " Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." 1 Finally it should be noted that the word "equation" is avoided throughout Section I. There seem good... | |
| 1923 - 878 lapas
...1 2 11 _ I 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 of them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle they are strictly limited in... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier - 1925 - 104 lapas
...reasoning almost mechanically, which otherwise would require careful and tiring thought. " Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle they are strictly limited in number,... | |
| Carl W. Condit - 1964 - 460 lapas
...expression are vital to a living culture, but we should remember with Whitehead that "civilization [also] advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."10 8 For a discussion of the general economic and historical problem of the preservation of American... | |
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