The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

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About Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism 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.
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