Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion…

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the…

— Eric Ries

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as…

— Isaac Asimov

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of…

— Albert Claude

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws…

— Samuel Johnson

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins…

— Herbert Hoover

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is…

— Marie Curie

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported…

— Roland Emmerich

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass…

— Walter A. Shewhart

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

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

What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them…

— James Bryant Conant