I often wish that this phrase "applied science," had never been invented. For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct practical use, which can be studied apart from another sort of scientific knowledge, which is of no practical utility, and which is termed "pure science." But there is no more complete fallacy than this.


Collected Essays (Volume 3), Science and Education, Science and Culture (p. 137)

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

I often wish that this phrase applied science, had never been invented. For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct...

I often wish that this phrase applied science, had never been invented. For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct...

I often wish that this phrase applied science, had never been invented. For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct...

I often wish that this phrase applied science, had never been invented. For it suggests that there is a sort of scientific knowledge of direct...