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
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
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 Image
