Applied Science Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… — Aldous Huxley
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
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… — Lewis Thomas
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science… — Ellen Swallow Richards
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our… — Arthur David Ritchie
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if… — William Shockley
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 useable… — Lincoln Barnett
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 and… — Nicholas Metropolis
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of… — Joseph John Thomson
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means… — Avicenna
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It… — George Porter
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production… — Walter A. Shewhart
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly… — Joseph William Mellor
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema… — Russell Kirk
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,… — C.S. Lewis
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land." — Edward Teller

Who Wrote These Applied Science Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 29 Applied Science Quotes as follows: