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- True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. — Tom Stoppard
- The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly… — H. L. Mencken
- Only useless things are indispensable. — Francis Picabia
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci
- The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. — Scott Westerfeld
- Emperors are vain and useless things. — Scott Westerfeld