Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science… — Lincoln Barnett Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in… — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be… — George Porter Copy Share Image
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
“There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all… — Christian Doppler Copy Share Image
