Vannevar Bush Quotes about Science

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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.

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.

Vannevar Bush

Science, Giving, Support

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Vannevar Bush

Science, Research, Accounts

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

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

Vannevar Bush

Real, Science, Use

Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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.

Vannevar Bush

Science, Ideas, Weak Spots

Vannevar Bush Quotes about Science

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