Arturo Rosenblueth
(2 Oct 1900 - 20 Sep 1970)
Mexican physicist and physiologist of Hungarian descent, who researched in the field of neurophysiology. Also, like Norbert Wiener, he is known among the pioneers of cybernetics (the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine).
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Science Quotes by Arturo Rosenblueth (2 quotes)
No substantial part of the universe is so simple that it can be grasped and controlled without abstraction. Abstraction consists in replacing the part of the universe under consideration by a model of similar but simpler structure. Models, formal and intellectual on the one hand, or material on the other, are thus a central necessity of scientific procedure.
— Arturo Rosenblueth
As coauthor with Norbert Wiener in 'The Role of Models in Science', Philosophy of Science (Oct 1945), 12, No. 4, 316.
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
— Arturo Rosenblueth
As coauthor with Norbert Wiener, in 'The Role of Models in Science', Philosophy of Science (Oct 1945), 12, 320.