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Norbert Wiener

(26 Nov 1894 - 18 Mar 1964)

American mathematician.

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Science Quotes by Norbert Wiener (2)

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.

— Norbert Wiener

In Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Statistics and Truth (1997), 31.

See also: | Sir Francis Bacon (112) | Faith (28) | Logic (66) | Science (444)

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

— Norbert Wiener

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1988), 124.

See also: | Convenience (2) | Discovery (166) | Existence (44) | Interpretation (14)

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