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• 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.

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  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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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

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  Understanding, World, Logical

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

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  Spirit, Pursue

  1953 Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 5 Oct.

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• The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

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  Cameras, Littles, Hounds

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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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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  Records, Ifs

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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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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  May, Facts, Belief

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, (pp. 28-29), 1967.

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• 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, Ideas, Weak Spots

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

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  Real, Science, Use

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

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  Power, Past, Men

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• A belief may be larger than a fact.

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  May, Facts, Belief

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, (pp. 28-29), 1967.

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• Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

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  Men, Race, Interesting

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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