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Norbert Wiener Quotes about Math

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Norbert Wiener
Future, Math, Progress
Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.46, Da Capo Press

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

Norbert Wiener
Math, Science, Engineering

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Norbert Wiener
Math, Fields, Logic
"Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. 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.

Norbert Wiener
Success, Math, Games
"Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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