“La géographie, c’est une littérature humaniste appliquée à l’espace. Science molle par opposition aux sciences dures? Non, science tout court, mais science empathique et luxuriante, qui nous explique, jour après jour, pourquoi, face aux menaces et aux risques qui sont brandis sans cesse au-dessus de nos têtes, il ne faut jamais désespérer. Mais agir ensemble, au contraire, au service de l’humanité.”

Souvenirs sur Marx, 1896

La philosophie en clair : 10 classiques sérieusement dépoussiérés, 1999.

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods — the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Essais, Livre I

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Capitalisme et liberté, 1962

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