Ants Quote by Norbert Wiener

“If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.”

Norbert Wiener

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

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“A proof represents a logical process which has come to a definitive conclusion in a finite number of stages. However, a logical machine following…

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

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