Vannevar Bush Quotes

• 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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• It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenly appreciated for the first time the power of man’s concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature. We were appalled by what we saw.

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

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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.

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

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• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

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• A belief may be larger than a fact.

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Vannevar Bush (8)

Birth:	11th March, 1890
Death:	28th June, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Engineer, Inventor

About

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan Project, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.

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