All Vannevar Bush Quotes
- Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. Banished
- 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… Abandon
- Basic scientific research is scientific capital. Basic
- 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… Faith
- A belief may be larger than a fact. Belief
- The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. Aspiration
- 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… Disparage
- 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… Apply
- 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. All
- There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. Affair
- The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. Camera
- 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… Amplified
- 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… Any
- 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… Consequent
- Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race. Consults
- 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… Belief
- Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. Ability
- Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something. Classroom
- 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… Broad
- 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… All
- Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far… Aspect
- The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it. Age
- The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that… Ahead
- 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… Arithmetic
- 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… Abandon