Application Quotes

566 quotes by 474 authors

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications… — Carly Fiorina
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a… — Mary McGrory
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of… — Paul Dirac
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of… — Og Mandino
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. — Humphry Davy
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one… — Louis Pasteur
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and… — Albert Einstein
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.… — Alfred North Whitehead
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… — Louis Pasteur
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… — Baruch Spinoza

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