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Within the atom occur phenomena concerning which visualization is futile, to which common sense, the guidance from our everyday experience, has no application, which yield to studies by equations that have no meaning except that they work.

— Vannevar Bush

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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 human mind, merely in its chemical and physical aspects, takes on new inspiring attributes.

Science is Not Enough (1967)

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

As We May Think (1945)

We puzzle as to whether the universe is bounded or extends forever; whether, indeed, it may only be one universe among many.

Science is Not Enough (1967)

It is the duty to carry on, under stress, the search for understanding.

Science is Not Enough (1967)

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