Practical Application Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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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
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The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their…
— Erwin Rommel
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of…
— Aharon Katzir
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To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They…
— Joseph Kastein
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Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles…
— Charles Babbage
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True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas…
— David O. McKay
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I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
— Heinrich Hertz
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Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that…
— Wilson Bryan Key
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In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in…
— Isabel Briggs Myers
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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 is its practical…
— Lord Kelvin
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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 principle.
— Jacques Hadamard
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these…
— Ada Lovelace
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to…
— Steve Jobs
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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 deadline, taking care…
— 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 become capable of…
— Alan Watts
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Humility is practical application of knowledge.
— Radhanath Swami
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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the…
— Marshall Brickman
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I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application
— Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Who Wrote These Practical Application Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Practical Application Quotes as follows: