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I have said that science is i...

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The mechanical brain does not...

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

Progress imposes not only new...

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The automatic machine, whatev...

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The best material model of a ...

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

Science is a way of life whic...

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

One of the chief duties of th...

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The world of the future will ...

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The simplest type of breakdow...

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

I have said that the modern m...

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

A significant idea of organiz...

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

Any use of a human being in w...

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The idea that information can...

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The nervous system and the au...

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

What most experimenters take ...

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The more we get out of the wo...

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

What sometimes enrages me and...

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

The sense of tragedy is that ...

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

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The modern physicist is a qua...

The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

Any useful logic must concern...

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Norbert Wiener 59 quotes

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