Areas Quote by Norbert Wiener

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

“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

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

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

— Norbert Wiener

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

— Norbert Wiener

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

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

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

— Norbert Wiener

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

“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

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

— Norbert Wiener

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