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Top 25 Vannevar Bush Quotes (2025 Update)

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.”

1. “Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”

3. “Basic scientific research is scientific capital.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

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

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “I say, technically, I don’t think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.”

5. “I say, technically, I don’t think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.”

8. “Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.”

9. “Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Give these people money, let them play, and they’ll come up with something.”

10. “Give these people money, let them play, and they’ll come up with something.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.”

12. “The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.”

13. “On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.”

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

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”

15. “As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.”

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

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.”

17. “Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.”

18. “If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”

19. “Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present -day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

20. “The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present -day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.”

22. “To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.”

23. “Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “A belief may be larger than a fact.”

25. “A belief may be larger than a fact.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Improvement in the teaching of science is imperative; for students of latent scientific ability are particularly vulnerable to high school teaching which fails to awaken interest or to provide adequate instruction.”

26. “Improvement in the teaching of science is imperative; for students of latent scientific ability are particularly vulnerable to high school teaching which fails to awaken interest or to provide adequate instruction.”

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.”

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

— Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush Quote: “The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.”

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

— Vannevar Bush

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