Pure Science Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

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
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
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to… — Samuel Johnson
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. — Edward Abbey
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was… — Rod Serling
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories… — John Lennox
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
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean… — John Desmond Bernal
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside… — Thomas Sowell
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to… — James Bryant Conant
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. — Irving Langmuir
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from… — Saul Bellow
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific… — James Henry Breasted
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful… — Vivienne Westwood
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure… — Marie Curie
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can… — Paul Tillich

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