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  • 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 this is his mission.

    "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

    Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”
  • 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.

    "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
  • Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

    1967 Science is Not Enough.
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Vannevar Bush

  • Born: March 11, 1890
  • Died: June 28, 1974
  • Occupation: Electrical engineer