“If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph. Ds!”

— Philippe Kahn

Interview with the Times reporter, 2002.

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Entrepreneur, camera phone creator 1952

Paul Rudnick (1957) American playwright and screenwiter

"My Living Will," http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/25/my-living-will The New Yorker (25 April 2005)

“Existence is made up of little things. Turn off the TV, turn on the music… and make love with life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'esistenza è fatta di piccole cose. Spegnete la TV, accendete la musica... e fate l'amore con la vita.
Source: prevale.net

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

“First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.”

Paul Karl Feyerabend book Against Method

Pg iii (Intro to the Chinese Edition of AM).
Against Method (1975)

“If it were not for the hope that a scientific study of men's social actions may lead, not necessarily directly or immediately, but at some time and in some way, to practical results in social improvement, not a few students of these actions would regard the time devoted to their study as time misspent. That is true of all social sciences, but especially true of economics. For economics "is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life"; and it is not in the ordinary business of life that mankind is most interesting or inspiring.”

Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959) British economist

Source: The Economics of Welfare (1920), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 1

“There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon the practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application; and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”

William Thomson (1824–1907) British physicist and engineer

Lecture on "Electrical Units of Measurement" (3 May 1883), published in Popular Lectures Vol. I, p. 73, as quoted in The Life of Lord Kelvin (1910) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"”

Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author

Ronald Coase in speech to the "International Society of New Institutional Economics" the 17 September 1999, Washington DC. He claims he was quoting fellow economist Ely Devons which reportedly said this in a meeting
1990s and later