Best Norbert Wiener Quotes
- We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. Environment
- One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. Acting
- 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… Advantage
- It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans,… Americans
- In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money… All
- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. Any
- A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket,… Among
- The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. Acquiescence
- 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… Debt