List of Vannevar Bush Quotes

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 Works At All They Plunge Ahead With It And Ignore Its Weak Spots... Scientists Are Just As Bad As The Rest Of The Public In Following Fads And Being Influenced By Mass Enthusiasm.

A Belief May Be Larger Than A Fact.

Thus Science May Implement The Ways In Which Man Produces, Stores, And Consults The Record Of The Race.

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.

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 Moments Of Life.

Presumably Man's Spirit Should Be Elevated If He Can Better Review His Shady Past And Analyze More Completely And Objectively His Present Problems.

Publication Has Been Extended Far Beyond Our Present Ability To Make Real Use Of The Record.

On The Wisdom With Which We Bring Science To Bear In The War Against Disease, In The Creation Of New Industries, And In The Strengthening Of Our Armed Forces Depends In Large Measure Our Future As A Nation.

The Camera Hound Of The Future Wears On His Forehead A Lump A Little Larger Than A Walnut.

If Scientific Reasoning Were Limited To The Logical Processes Of Arithmetic, We Should Not Get Very Far In Our Understanding Of The Physical World

The Summation Of Human Experience Is Being Expanded At A Prodigious Rate, And 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.

To Pursue Science Is Not To Disparage Things Of The Spirit.