Application Quote by John Herschel

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday…

— Martin Rees

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

— George Earle Buckle

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Ted Nordhaus

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into…

— Edwin Land

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds…

— Henry Taube

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and…

— Tony Hoare

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

— Wayne Dyer

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss