Vannevar Bush Quotes
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.