Below that ceiling, however, Weaver was a heterodox thinker whose passions ran the gamut; he published or worked on problems in engineering, mathematics, machine learning, translation, biology, the natural sciences, and probabilities. But unlike many of his colleagues, he believed in a world outside the confines of science and math, and he avoided the all-too-common insularity of the fields he worked in and the thinkers who worked in them. “Do not overestimate science, do not think that science is all that there is,” he urged students in a 1966 talk.
