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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 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.

Vannevar Bush
Simple, Men, Understanding
"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.

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Essence, Understanding, Sake
1967 Science is Not Enough.

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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