Am I really a good mathematician?

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.

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.

The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

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 which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.