Quotes About Application

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Science is practical philosophy.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.