Application Quote by Tobias Dantzig

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire…

— Lord Kelvin

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

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

Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific…

— Oliver Heaviside

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and thus deduce…

— Ada Lovelace

It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it…

— Ada Lovelace

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

— Richard Hamming

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only…

— H. G. Wells

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to…

— Charles Lyell

“It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that work for…

— G.H. Hardy