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Vannevar Bush
(11 Mar 1890 - 28 Jun 1974)

American electrical engineer.


Science Quotes by Vannevar Bush (1)

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
— Vannevar Bush
Endless Horizons (1946), 27.
See also:  |  Arithmetic (20)  |  Logic (69)  |  Mathematics (226)  |  Probability (34)  |  Reasoning (27)  |  Understanding (99)


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