Rhwawn comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rhwawn 06 April 2012 07:54:30PM 17 points [-]

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.

Alfred North Whitehead, “An Introduction to Mathematics” (thanks to Terence Tao)