"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical……" — 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. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability."
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25 Quotes by Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush has 25 quotes on this site.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter,…
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Basic scientific research is scientific capital.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to…
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to…
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As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of…
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A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above…
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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to…
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More Arithmetic Quotes
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."
— T. Harv Eker
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the…
— Roger Bacon
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more…
— Bertrand Russell
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same…
— Bertrand Meyer
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is…
— Unknown Author
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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