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 pe….

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they ma….

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave..

Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the ….

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 pe….

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of en….

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a go….

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

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

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false tha….

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

In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily….

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste..

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our pu….

There are no answers, only cross references..

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat..

Am I really a good mathematician?.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenien….

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebaske….

The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Satu….

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential ….