the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine.

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

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….

I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially def….

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the incr….

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something….

A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to….

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we….

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible t….

It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a num….

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and ….