They have improved his food, his clothing, his shelter they have increased his security and released him partly from the bondage of bare existence. Of what lasting benefit has been man's use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence? First, they have increased his control of his material environment. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.
He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr.
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