Useful Arts Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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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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Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors…
— James Madison
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Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish…
— Justus von Liebig
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the…
— Bryan Ward-Perkins
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In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
— George Orwell
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The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by…
— John Dewey
Who Wrote These Useful Arts Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Useful Arts Quotes as follows: