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Norbert Wiener Quotes: I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
         

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'


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



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Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.



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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.



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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.



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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.





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