Practical Applications Quotes

#1. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#2. Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Edward Teller

#3. Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

Ragnar Frisch

#4. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#5. For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

William Lipscomb

#6. People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

Ada Yonath

#7. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Tim Hetherington

#8. Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Stephen Hawking

#9. It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

Steven Weinberg

#10. Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#11. Communism is fascism, in all practical applications," he was saying now. "Can you think of a Communist country sans dictator?

Sara Novic

#12. Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

John Herschel

#13. There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application ...

Lord Kelvin

#14. Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.

Walter Isaacson

#15. Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

I. Bernard Cohen

#16. Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Les Brown

#17. In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.

Francois Englert

#18. It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

Alfred North Whitehead

#19. As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

John Coyle

#20. The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

Tobias Dantzig

#21. Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

John Harsanyi

#23. Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.

China Mieville

#25. Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Richard Smalley