"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments."
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Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 5
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