For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how…

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

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

— Annie Besant

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

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