Vannevar Bush Quotes About Science

• 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.

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• 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 too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

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  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

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  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.2

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• Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

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• Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

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  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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