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.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability and something is bound to come of it.
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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.
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.
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.
Knowledge for the sake of understanding not merely to prevail that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits or set its ultimate boundaries.
Fear cannot be banished but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Basic scientific research is scientific capital.
A belief may be larger than a fact.
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
Give these people money let them play and they'll come up with something.
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.
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.
To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.
Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
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.
Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces stores and consults the record of the race.
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.