…be made, involves so many, infinitely many variables that scientific prediction is always going to be extremely uncertain. As Norbert Wiener put it so beautifully, to have perfect meteorological predictions you'd have to fill the entire atmosphere with weather…

…eyes, and they would have to be able to report simultaneously the way everything is from their point of view. As Norbert Wiener once put it rather amusingly, he said to get accurate meteorological predictions you'd have to fill the entire atmosphere with…

…it makes a very good prediction on the whole. I mean there's little inaccuracies like predicting the weather. As Norbert Wiener said if you want really accurate meteorological predictions you've got to fill the whole atmosphere with weather balloons. But…

…evidence about this, that and the other. But nowadays we have swung over perhaps to be a little bit too uncritical and as Norbert Wiener warned in his book the human use of human beings we must not take science as a sort of fairy godmother and say:…