Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or…

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means,…

— Aldous Huxley

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis – about which more later…

— Ben Goldacre

Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have…

— Albert Einstein

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory…

— Nicholas Metropolis

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of…

— Louis Pasteur

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of…

— Albert Einstein

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels…

— G.H. Hardy

“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful above all…

— G.H. Hardy

The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd…

— Arthur David Ritchie

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try…

— Edwin Land

The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the…

— Lincoln Barnett

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike…

— C. S. Lewis

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be…

— Aldous Huxley

Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their…

— Lewis Thomas