The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.More Norbert Wiener quotes [07/19/2011 03:07:50]

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.More Norbert Wiener quotes [07/19/2011 03:07:35]

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Norbert Wiener quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]