“If a man with this tragic sense approaches, not fire, but another manifestation of original power, like the splitting of the atom, he will do so with fear and trembling. He will not leap in where angels fear to tread, unless he is prepared to accept the punishment of the fallen angels.
Neither will he calmly transfer to the machine made in his own image the responsibility
for his choice of good and evil, without continuing to accept a full responsibility for that choice.”
Norbert Wiener, 1950, The Human Use of Human Beings
Norbert Wiener, 1950, The Human Use of Human Beings