Norbert Wiener Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

  Norbert Wiener

  Simple, Progress, Weakness

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.47, Da Capo Press

• 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

• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fighting, Progress, Trying

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.32, Hachette UK

• It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

  Norbert Wiener

  Believe, Ethical Principles, Progress

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.42, Da Capo Press

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