Applied Quote by Wen Jiabao

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

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

— Fred Saberhagen

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children,…

— David Gross

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

— Glenn T. Seaborg

If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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

— Irving Langmuir

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

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it…

— Charlie Munger

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

— Robert Winston

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer