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

There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.

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. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...

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.