Applications Quote by Stephen Hawking

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless task and…

— A.V. Hill

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

— William Hazlitt

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false…

— William Hazlitt

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all,…

— Alan Guth

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws…

— Samuel Johnson

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins…

— Herbert Hoover

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is…

— Marie Curie

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

— Irving Langmuir

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported…

— Roland Emmerich

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

Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have everything that…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki