"The summation of human experience is being expanded……" — 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 the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships."
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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 Consequent Quotes
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
— Whittaker Chambers
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Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill…
— Tim Field
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A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. .…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance…
— Patrick Henry
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When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of…
— Sol LeWitt
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To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to…
— Charles F. Haanel
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