Vannevar Bush Quotes

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• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
• Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways…
• Basic scientific research is scientific capital.
• 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…
• A belief may be larger than a fact.
• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
• The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
• 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…
• Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This…
• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the…
• Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.
• 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…
• Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
• Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.
• 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…
• Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one…

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