Alfred North Whitehead Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947
Birthday: February 15
Death: December 30
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 number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
source: An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)
topic: Book, Math, Thinking, Cavalry, Decisive Moments, Numbers And Math
