Accounts Quote by Lincoln Barnett

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

— Louis Pasteur

The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality,…

— Albert Einstein

The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy.…

— Joseph William Mellor

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

— William James

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to…

— Louis Pasteur

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

— P. T. Barnum

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass…

— Walter A. Shewhart

“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely…

— C.A.R. Hoare

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of…

— Louis Pasteur

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper