As for the Internet, I tend to have profound doubts about the value of this communication advance to science. I wonder if, in an era of the Internet, we can have somebody like Eugene Wigner. Eugene Wigner's genius manifested itself in his ability to concentrate for a long time on a single idea. If you are constantly beset by outside ideas, can you really get to the true heart of the matter? It's a very different way of doing science.


Interview by Bill Cabage and Carolyn Krause for the ORNL Review (April 1995).

Internet Archive A Chat with Alvin M. Weinberg

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As for the Internet, I tend to have profound doubts about the value of this communication advance to science. I wonder if, in an era of the Internet, ...

As for the Internet, I tend to have profound doubts about the value of this communication advance to science. I wonder if, in an era of the Internet, ...

As for the Internet, I tend to have profound doubts about the value of this communication advance to science. I wonder if, in an era of the Internet, ...

As for the Internet, I tend to have profound doubts about the value of this communication advance to science. I wonder if, in an era of the Internet, ...