Vannevar Bush

We are in a race between education and catastrophe.

The applications of science are not the applications of science unless they apply to the welfare of men.

Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

The world of tomorrow will be a world of science, and the nation that leads in science will lead the world.

The scientist must be free to follow his own curiosity, wherever it may lead him.

The frontiers of science are not like the geographical frontiers of the past, which once explored, were gone. They are ever-expanding, ever-receding.

The machine is not an enemy of man, but a tool to extend his capabilities.

A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.

The human mind, in its present form, is not well adapted to the handling of the enormous mass of data that it is now called upon to digest.

Our methods of transmitting and reviewing the record of experience are in many ways inadequate.

The scientist has a moral obligation to see that his discoveries are used for good and not for evil.

The greatest discoveries are not made by committees, but by individuals.

The future belongs to those who can master the art of organized research.

The greatest danger to democracy is not from without, but from within, from the failure to educate our citizens.

We must not confuse the tools of science with the spirit of science.

The true scientist is a rebel, not a conformist.

The atomic bomb is not merely a new weapon; it is a new force in human affairs.

The control of atomic energy is the most vital problem facing mankind.

There is no security in secrecy.

The only way to avoid war is to make it so terrible that no one will dare to start it.