Vannevar Bush Short Quotes

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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

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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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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

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We puzzle as to whether the universe is bounded or extends forever; whether, indeed, it may only be one universe among many.

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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.

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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.

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Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose.

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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish a framework on which the spirit may rise.

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With all our wide vision we may be looking at only a small part of a grand creation. Our universe with its billions of galaxies may be only one among many.

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Science does not exclude faith... Science does not teach a harsh materialism. It does not teach anything beyond its boundaries, and those boundaries have been severely limited by science itself.

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He who would tell us with the authority of scholarship a complete story of why we exist, of our mission here, has a duty to speak convincingly in a world where men increasingly think for themselves.

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