...competitive scientific spirit so necessary for expansion of the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Scientific progress on a broad front results from...by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science in accordance...

...with the opinion expressed in the Bush Report to President Roosevelt, Science, the Endless Frontier: "Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for...

...for expansion of the frontiers of scientific knowledge."20 Scientific progress, the report continued, results from "the free play of free intellects, working...dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown."21 And open publication of the research would be to the benefit of the Nation. One of the...

...programs and should be independent from political control. Scientific progress, the Bush report asserted, results from "the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in a manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown."6 The Rilgore and Steelman camps...

...science and society envisioned by Vannevar Bush in 1945. In an oft-quoted passage, Bush asserted that Scientific progress on a broad front results from...choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for the exploration of the unknown. 11 Bush thought that colleges, universities, and research institutes...

...interference from the government and maximum freedom for the scientist.8 As if echoing Merton, Bush wrote: Scientific progress on a broad front results from...by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. . . . Support of basic research in the public and private colleges, universities, and research institutes...

...principle: that the government had to preserve "freedom of inquiry," to recognize that scientific progress results from the "free play of free intellects, working...choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for explanation of the unknown,' ? Since the federal government recognized that it did not have the capacity...

...competitive scientific spirit so necessary for expansion of the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Scientific progress on a broad front results from...by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for government support of science .... As long...

...people want from research, attention to "basic research" is the most effective way of providing it: "Scientific progress on a broad front results from...working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner 4. Bush, Science — Ihe Endless Frontier, 83. 5. Bush, Science — The Endless Frontier, 19; see also...

...World War II." Quoting from Bush's report, Kevles hailed its insistence on "'freedom of inquiry,'" and the "'free play of free intellects, working on subjects...their own choice, in the manner dictated by their own curiosity for the explanation of the unknown.' These principles," Kevles reverentially declared,...