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• La ciencia tiene una fe simple, que trasciende la utilidad... Es la fe en que es privilegio del hombre aprender a comprender, y que ésta es su misión.

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  Simple, Men, Understanding

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• La ciencia puede dar a la humanidad un mejor nivel de vida, una mejor salud y una mejor vida mental, si la humanidad a su vez da a la ciencia la simpatía y el apoyo tan esenciales para su progreso.

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  Ciencia, Dar, Apoyo

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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.

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  Long, May, Flow

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

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  Courage, Fear, Panic

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

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  War, Team, Achievement

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.6

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• Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

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  Juego, Gente, Dar

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• 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.

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  Play, Choices, Curiosity

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. 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. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

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  Memories, Communication, Book

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• 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.

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  May, Facts, Spirit

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• El mundo ha llegado a la era de los dispositivos complejos baratos y de gran fiabilidad, y seguro que algo saldrá de ello.

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  Age, Reliability, World

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• La ciencia tiene una fe simple, que trasciende la utilidad. Casi todos los hombres de ciencia, todos los hombres de aprendizaje para el caso, y los hombres de maneras simples también, la tienen en alguna forma y en algún grado. Es la fe en que el privilegio del hombre es aprender a comprender, y que ésta es su misión. Si abandonamos esa misión bajo el estrés, la abandonaremos para siempre, porque el estrés no cesará. Conocer para comprender, no sólo para prevalecer, ésa es la esencia de nuestro ser. Nadie puede definir sus límites, ni establecer sus fronteras últimas.

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  Fe, Estrés, Conocimiento

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• 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.

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  Running, Mesh, Form

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• La investigación científica básica es capital científico.

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  Ciencia, Investigación, Cuentas

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.2

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• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

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  Men, Scene, Aspiration

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• La responsabilidad de la creación de nuevos conocimientos científicos -y de la mayor parte de su aplicación- recae en ese pequeño cuerpo de hombres y mujeres que comprenden las leyes fundamentales de la naturaleza y son hábiles en las técnicas de la investigación científica. El avance rápido o lento de cualquier frontera científica dependerá del número de científicos altamente cualificados y formados que la exploren.

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  Responsabilidad, Hombres, Ley

  "Science - The Endless Frontier" by Vannevar Bush, United States, Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.

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• It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.

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  War, Men, Effort

  1967 Science is Not Enough.

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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

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  People, Complicated, Affair

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.

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  Moon, Men, Skills

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• There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.

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  Writing, Talking, Land

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• The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.

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  Art, Law, Design

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.

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  Thinking, Long, Wish

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• The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

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  Real, Views, Use

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

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  War, Disease, Bears

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.4

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• Conocer para comprender, no sólo para prevalecer, ésa es la esencia de nuestro ser: nadie puede definir sus límites ni establecer sus fronteras últimas.

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  Essence, Understanding, Sake

  1967 Science is Not Enough.

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• La indexación asociativa, cuya idea básica es una disposición por la que se puede hacer que cualquier elemento seleccione inmediata y automáticamente otro. Esta es la característica esencial del Memex. Lo importante es el proceso de unir dos elementos.

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  Ideas, Two, Important

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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