Accuracy Quote by Walter A. Shewhart

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

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

— Louis Pasteur

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines…

— Joseph John Thomson

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same…

— Edward Abbey

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the…

— Lincoln Barnett

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

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the…

— Charles Babbage

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

— William Stanley Jevons