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… — 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
