Vannevar Bush

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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush

I ran American science during the war and helped convince Truman to keep funding it afterward. Now I want to know: what if every scholar could reach every thought ever written?

Vannevar Bush
·1945·Washington, D.C., USA

Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual.