Norbert Wiener Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

  Norbert Wiener

  Learning, Science, Discovery

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

  Norbert Wiener

  Engineering, Names, Important

• Mathematics 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.

  Norbert Wiener

  Chess, Fields, Moments

  Norbert Wiener (1953). “Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth”

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

  Norbert Wiener

  Math, Science, Engineering

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