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> There's a quote I cannot find that I miss greatly ... This is probably it: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we ca
by emptybits 4y ago
> There's a quote I cannot find that I miss greatly ...
This is probably it: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." - Alfred North Whitehead
(And I agree that depth is rewarding and civilization allowing us to forget things isn't always tempting!)
- jodrellblank 4y agoA similar quote from A.N. Whitehad: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitehead/quotations/ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitehead/...