Practical Quotes

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step… — Alexander Graham Bell
For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the… — Augustus Saint-Gaudens
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a… — Daniel Goleman
Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of… — Richard Hamming
Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… — John Ruskin
The most practical solution is a good theory. — Albert Einstein
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
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
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical… — Nevill Francis Mott
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
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy

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