Applied Science Quotes

• There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Past, Technology

  Address, 11 September 1872, in 'Comptes rendus des travaux du Congrés viticole et sèricicole de Lyon, 9-14 septembre 1872' p. 49

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• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Past, Names

  "Revue Scientifique". Book by Louis Pasteur, 1871.

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

  William Shockley

  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Teamwork, Community, Decision

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• Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'

  Albert Einstein

  Running, Hard Work, Simple

  "Einstein Sees Lack In Applying Science; Man Has "Not Yet Learned To Make Sensible Use Of It," He Asserts. Cites War And Machinery He Urges California Students To Seek To Put Knowledge To Good Of The Race", www.nytimes.com. February 17, 1931.

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• Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

  Aldous Huxley

  Technology, Yield, Medusa

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

  Fritz Haber

  Kings, Teaching, Creativity

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• There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Tree, Special

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• The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as applied science, for, the moment the attempt is made to apply, science passes into the realm of art.

  Joseph William Mellor

  Art, Law, Purpose

  Joseph William Mellor (1946). “A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry”

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• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  J. G. Ballard

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Introduction to the French edition of "Crash", 1974.

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• If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.

  Edwin Land

  Missing, Trying, Needs

  "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.

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• The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

  Henry R. Towne

  Science, Old Things, Cost

  "Industrial Engineering : An Address Delivered" by Henry R. Towne, www.stamfordhistory.org. February 24th, 1905.

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• In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

  Edward Teller

  Education, Science, Men

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• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Fate, Blessing

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Mind, Science And Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• 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 useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.

  Lincoln Barnett

  Science, Medicine, Understanding

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• The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Law, Research

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• For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  James G. Frazer

  Art, Men, Order

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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

  Louis Pasteur

  Application, Pure

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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