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 ma….

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "me….

The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who und….

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 momen….

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundar….

Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indul….

There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking ….

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

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 t….

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 publicatio….

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 t….

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, hav….

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

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 ….

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

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 ….

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 ….

The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its dev….

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something..

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 suppo….

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. ….