...therefore a better guide for our action than is abstract deductive reasoning. As Whitehead remarks, "Civilization advances by extending the number of...operations which we can perform without thinking about them"—we do not have to think about them because others have done the practical thinking and testing...

...passing on to the future. CO (D This page intentionally left blank Critical Thought, Science, and Justice Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized...

...Natural Knowledge 1925 (Cambridge) 61 It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches,...which we can perform without thinking about them. Introduction to Mathematics 1911 (New York: Williams fc Norgate). In Scientific American September...

...connection, "It is a profoundly erroneous truism . . . that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case....which we can perform without thinking about them." This is of profound significance. . . . We have developed these practices and institutions by building...

...and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case....operations which we can perform without thinking about them.79 It is easy to create brilliant ex post facto explanations of this order solely in terms of...

...The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once remarked that "it is a profoundly erroneous truism . . . that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of...case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them" (Quoted by Medawar I984:i95). 29 When...

...foreshadowing of his later work on social evolution, Hayek quotes Alfred North Whitehead, who said that "civilization advances by extending the number of...which we can perform without thinking about them" (88). By this criterion, central planning is a step backward rather than an improvement on the price...

...concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. . . . Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them. — AN Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911 The first thing the intellect does with an object...

...and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case....which we can perform without thinking about them. . . ." The price system is just one of those formulations which man has learned to use . . . after...

...finishing touches on his painting. Preface It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all the copybooks, and by eminent people when they are making...case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry...