Application Quote by Jacques Hadamard

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

— Anonymous

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has…

— Lucio Russo

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin