One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
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