...ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. 12478 Introductlon to Mathematics 19217829 We also serve who only punctuate. MOORE...1779-1863 7830 'A Visit from St Nicholas' Twas the 12479 The major advances in civilizatlon are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they...

...naive physics of Star Trek 28 Mental models of motion 30 Summary 34 Further reading 35 , Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. (Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas) The only reason some people get lost in thought is because...

...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 what...which we can perform without thinking about them." The Whitehead argument depends on some assumptions about the relation between rules and intelligent...

...profoundly erroneous truism", wrote Whitehead (1911), "that we should cultivate the habit of thinking about what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case....which we can perform without thinking about them". But elsewhere (as quoted by Laszlo, 1972) he wrote: "in creative thought, common sense is a bad master....

...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....which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number,...

...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....which we can perform without thinking about them." 3 Perhaps some people are born with greater potential for good thinking habits than are others. And...

...they arc making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. TJie precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances...which we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead This chapter presents a potpourri of other technologyrelated areas where...

...and-statements. As before, we arrange the terms so that terms in adjacent cells differ by only one factor. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them. Aljnd North Whitehead pf\-q We consider the first column to be adjacent to the last column since those...

...eminent people when they are making speeches. that we should cultivate the hahit of thinking ahout what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances hy extending the numher of important operations which we can perform without thinking ahout them. Operations...

...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 what...operations which we can perform without thinking about them"l2 (Whitehead, l9ll, p. 6l). Or, we might add, without describing them explicitly. To the extent...