 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 Mechanisms of Governance - Page 146by Oliver E. Williamson - 1996 - 448 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 276 pages
...almost mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all...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... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1914 - 666 pages
...almost mechanically by the eye, which otherwise would call into play the higher faculties of the brain. It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all...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... | |
 | P. P. G. Bateson, R. A. Hinde - 1976 - 564 pages
...me to be a very wise passage by Alfred North Whitehead in his Introduction to Mathematics (191 1) : It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all...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... | |
 | Charles Birch, John B. Cobb - 1985 - 372 pages
...polemic against even such laudable habits and disciplines as these. As Whitehead (1911, pp. 41-2) wrote: 'It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by...speeches that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Stephen E. Gottlieb - 1993 - 300 pages
...with it the important psychological gain that choices are narrowed."33 As Whitehead memorably put it, It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all...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... | |
 | Morris Raphael Cohen, Morris R. Cohen, Ernest Nagel - 1993 - 306 pages
...on speaking-terms with many notables. 1. Brown is an employee of Jackson. 2. Discuss the following: "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by...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... | |
 | Fred B. Schneider - 1997 - 498 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...Medieval Historian Í974:3. Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947 British mathematician and philosopher It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all...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... | |
 | Julian Lincoln Simon - 2000 - 248 pages
...muscular energy, [humans would] be in a sorry plight." 2 And Alfred North Whitehead puts it this way: "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by...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... | |
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