It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending... The Teaching of Algebra (including Trigonometry) - 79. lappuseautors: Sir Thomas Percy Nunn - 1919 - 616 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | A. N. WHITEHEAD - 1911
...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, Thomas Percy Nunn - 1914 - 616 lapas
...problems in Bxs. XIV, XV should, of course, always be tested by substitution. In Ex. XIV, B, Nos. 32-7, the pupil is instructed to test also any formula derived...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Percy Nunn - 1914 - 616 lapas
...the subject. Thus in No. 32 he is, from the formula W= b + mn, to derive the formula n = (W - b)/mby mechanical application of the rules of ch. x. He is...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
...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,... | |
 | Carl W. Condit - 1964 - 238 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... | |
 | F. A. Hayek - 1980 - 271 lapas
...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking 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." This is of profound significance in the social field. We make constant use of formulas, symbols, and... | |
 | 1984
...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking 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. Some other tools that may help are: transformation of costing practices to give visibility to costs... | |
 | Morris Raphael Cohen, Morris R. Cohen, Ernest Nagel - 1993 - 232 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 battle they arc strictly limited in number, they... | |
 | Robin Maconie - 1993 - 187 lapas
...would say, is efficient perception in action. 'Civilization advances (said Alfred North Whitehead) by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." The opposite case is the tourist, scrap of street map in hand, impeding the traffic of passers-by,... | |
 | John Courtney Murray - 1994 - 373 lapas
...added, I think, about the sense of style. Whitehead may or may not have been wholly right when he said, "Civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them." In any case, style is what you don't think about when in action, on penalty of awkwardness. Similarly,... | |
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