Construing 'Technology' as 'Applied Science' Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, 1880-1945

摘要

I often wish 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. What people call applied science is nothing but the application of pure science to particular classes of problems.