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

- Vannevar Bush

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…

- Vannevar Bush

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

- Vannevar Bush

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 …

- Vannevar Bush

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…

- Vannevar Bush

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

- Vannevar Bush

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…

- Vannevar Bush

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

- Vannevar Bush

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…

- Vannevar Bush