Quote of the day
by Brian Hayes
Published 9 January 2006
It is by no longer having to think about things that civilisation progresses.
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Publication history
First publication: 9 January 2006
Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025
Also: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead
Lest someone think that Stoy was a plagiarist, I should point out that the sentence I quote from Stoy’s book is followed immediately by a reference to Whitehead’s Introduction to Mathematics.