Applied Science Quotes:

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

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Applied Science, Application, Pure

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

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Science, Past, Technology, Applied Science

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

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Science, Past, Names, Applied Science

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

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility, Diagrams, Linear Equations

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

topic: Motivation, Knowledge, Hands, Good Fun, Applied Science

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Helping Others, Making A Living, Source Of Life

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

topic: Teamwork, Community, Decision, Applied Science

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

source: "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.

topic: Running, Hard Work, Simple, Applied Science

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Technology, Yield, Hats, Medusa, Applied Science

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

topic: Kings, Teaching, Independent, Applied Science

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

topic: Science, Tree, Special, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Art, Law, Purpose, Purpose Of Art, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Science, Thinking, Technology, Best Technology, Applied Science

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

topic: Missing, Trying, Needs, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Science, Old Things, Cost, Applied Science

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

- Edward Teller

topic: Education, Science, Men, Educational Institutions, Applied Science

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

topic: Science, Fate, Blessing, Diagrams, Unsolved Problems

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

topic: Wise, Reality, Men, Objective Reality, Applied Science

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

topic: War, Mind, Science And Religion, Applied Science, Science Of Mind

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

topic: Science, Medicine, Understanding, Applied Science

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

topic: Law, Research, Crowds, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Wise, Reality, Men, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Leader, Progress, Important, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Art, Men, Order, Dross, Applied Science

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

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

topic: Success, Yoga, Men, Dreamy, Drifting

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

topic: War, Mean, Race, Applied Science

Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most of medicine.

- Lewis Thomas

topic: Hands, Medicine, Facts, Applied Science

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.

- Ellen Swallow Richards

topic: Religious, Happy Life, Names, Religious Life, Applied Science

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and applications in the physical sciences. Since World War II the discoveries that have changed the world are not made so much in lofty halls of theoretical physics as in the less-noticed labs of engineering and experimental physics. The roles of pure and applied science have been reversed; they are no longer what they were in the golden age of physics, in the age of Einstein, Schrödinger, Fermi and Dirac.

- Nicholas Metropolis

topic: War, Discovery, Engineering, Physical Science, Applied Science

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

- Avicenna

topic: Art, Health, Mean, Applied Science

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

- Theodosius Dobzhansky

topic: Ideas, Eugenics, Sound, Applied Science

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

- George Porter

topic: Foundation, May, Matter, Matter Of Time, Applied Science

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

- Walter A. Shewhart

source: "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.

topic: Requirements, Matter, Mass, Mass Production, Applied Science

Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence trick ever tried the damage would be fairly minimal. But the problem is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of doctors believe the lie that they are taught; they believe that they are scientists, practising an applied science.

- Vernon Coleman

topic: Lying, Believe, Successful, Applied Science

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

- Russell Kirk

topic: Country, Ambition, Mind, Anathema, Applied Science

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Art, Technology, Men, Applied Science

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods-the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.

- Joseph John Thomson

source: Attributed in "The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson" by Lord Rayleigh, (p. 199), 1943.

topic: Powerful, Winning, Differences, Applied Science

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Lying, Past, Government, Amputation, Painless

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

- Isabel Briggs Myers

source: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.96, Hachette UK

topic: Fields, Mechanic, Interest, Applied Science