There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
• Variant translation: There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." - Meaning and context.">
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Revue Scientifique (1871)
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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
• Variant translation: There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

— Louis Pasteur

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• Variant translation: There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." in the context of "Revue Scientifique (1871)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Louis Pasteur

About Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", discoverer of molecular asymmetry and stereo-chemistry, and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.