Applications Quote by Stephen Hawking

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We…

— Maria Mitchell

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

— Craig Mello

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of…

— Arthur Compton

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

— Robert L. Park

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

— Reggie Watts