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> [If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to-the-logical-processes-of/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/058/vannevar-bush-16927_arithmetic_if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to_382904.jpg)

> [If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to-the-logical-processes-of-2/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1dc/vannevar-bush-16927_arithmetic_if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to_773402.jpg)

## Other authors on Arithmetic

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arithmetic/bertrand-russell/)

## More by Vannevar Bush

> [The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/the-camera-hound-of-the-future-wears-on-his-forehead-a-lump-a-little/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to-the-logical-processes-of/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/science-has-a-simple-faith-which-transcends-utility-nearly-all-men-of/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/science-can-give-mankind-a-better-standard-of-living-better-health/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/the-responsibility-for-the-creation-of-new-scientific-knowledge-and/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/if-scientific-reasoning-were-limited-to-the-logical-processes-of-2/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/science-has-a-simple-faith-which-transcends-utility-it-is-the-faith/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [A belief may be larger than a fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/a-belief-may-be-larger-than-a-fact/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/it-was-through-the-second-world-war-that-most-of-us/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/wholly-new-forms-of-encyclopedias-will-appear-ready-made-with-a-mesh/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/give-these-people-money-let-them-play-and-they-ll-come-up-with/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/the-scene-changes-but-the-aspirations-of-men-of-good-will-persist/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/a-record-if-it-is-to-be-useful-to-science-must-be-continuously/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [ The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, \[but\] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/the-summation-of-human-experience-is-being-expanded-at-a-prodigious/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

> [There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vannevar-bush/there-will-always-be-plenty-of-things-to-compute-in-the-detailed/)

[Vannevar Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vannevar-bush/)

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