Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess,… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical machine following… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share
