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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
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. -- Astro Teller
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
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. -- Irving Langmuir
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. -- Jim Sanborn
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. -- John Desmond Bernal
Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice. -- Carlo Rubbia
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. -- Vivienne Westwood
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science. -- Louis Pasteur
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves. -- James Bryant Conant
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science. -- Thomas Sowell
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. -- Jim Sanborn
As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities. -- Edwin Land
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun." -- John Desmond Bernal
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries. -- Herbert Hoover
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
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form. -- Rod Serling
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents. -- Samuel Johnson
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. -- Roland Emmerich
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies. -- Eric Hoffer
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. -- James Henry Breasted
So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this. -- Steve Jobs
I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences. -- Ian Goldin
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. -- P. T. Barnum
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. -- Edmund Husserl
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it. -- Huston Smith
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
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. -- James Cameron
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF? -- Paul Di Filippo
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. -- Edmund Husserl
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both. -- Ming-Na Wen
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. -- Charles Stross
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action. -- Weili Dai
Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants. -- Martin Filler
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. -- H. L. Mencken
The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science. -- William Happer
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue. -- Henri Poincare
We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible. -- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience -- Immanuel Kant
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. -- Edward Abbey
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. -- Samuel Johnson

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