Direct access may refer to:
- DirectAccess, a network technology in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Direct access, a concept in computer science
- Direct Access Archive, a proprietary file format
- Direct access storage device, a secondary computer storage device
- Direct Access Test Unit, special numbers used to test telephone exchanges
- Direct access trading, a technology for stock trading
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“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
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