There is something which unites magic and applied science…

“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men of old…

— C.S. Lewis

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

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

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 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

“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

“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

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

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

— Annie Besant

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

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

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

“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

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

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