Vannevar Bush Quotes

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Science is but an image of the truth.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.