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title: "10 Practical Application Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [Humility is practical application of knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/radhanath-swami/humility-is-practical-application-of-knowledge/)

[Radhanath Swami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/radhanath-swami/)

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> [I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-hertz/i-do-not-think-that-the-radio-waves-i-have-discovered-will-have-any/)

[Heinrich Hertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-hertz/)

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> [I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-rudolf-hertz/i-do-not-think-that-the-wireless-waves-i-have-discovered-will-have/)

[Heinrich Rudolf Hertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-rudolf-hertz/)

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> [“But why must everything always have a practical application?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/but-why-must-everything-always-have-a-practical-application/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-hadamard/practical-application-is-found-by-not-looking-for-it-and-one-can-say/)

[Jacques Hadamard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-hadamard/)

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> [There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-kelvin/there-cannot-be-a-greater-mistake-than-that-of-looking-superciliously/)

[Lord Kelvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-kelvin/)

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> [Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-russell-lowell/practical-application-is-the-only-mordant-which-will-set-things-in/)

[James Russell Lowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell/)

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> [“But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/but-why-must-everything-always-have-a-practical-application-i-d-been-2/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-is-the-next-step-the-practical-application-i-will-answer-that/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/but-why-must-everything-have-a-practical-application-i-d-been-such-a/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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