Today is the birthday of Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964), mathematician. He is best known for his theory of cybernetics - the comparative study of control and communication in humans and machines."Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
- Norbert Wiener
"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
- Norbert Wiener
"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 flourish when men are free to have faith."
- Norbert Wiener
"What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead."
- Norbert Wiener
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