Friday, September 22, 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Eyes wide open . . .

Experience has pretty well convinced the working physicist that any idea of a nature which is not only difficult to interpret but which actively resists interpretation has not been justified as far as his past work is concerned, and therefore, to be an effective scientist, he must be naive, and even deliberately naive, in making the assumption that he is dealing with an honest God, and must ask his questions of the world as an honest man.

The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society
Norbert Wiener