A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

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

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.

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.