Quotes by Norbert Wiener

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 is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.

Community

Healthy

Order

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

Age

Running

Tongue

A professor is one who can speak on any subject – for precisely fifty minutes.

Engineering

Math

Science

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

Ideas

Organization

World

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, will make a mathematician’s reputation.

Chess Game

Games

Successful

Am I really a good mathematician?

Mathematician

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Accepting

Economic

Slave Labor

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Degradation

Use

Waste

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Degrees

Ideas

Vagueness

I have said that science is impossible without faith. … Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith … Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Faith

Men

Science

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Quotes by Norbert Wiener

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 is ultimately bound to ruin itself because of the paralysis which the lack of a healthy growing science imposes upon it.

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject – for precisely fifty minutes.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

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, will make a mathematician’s reputation.

Am I really a good mathematician?

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

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