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Louis Pasteur

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur is saying that applied science is not a separate kind of science but rather the practical use of scientific knowledge. He compares science and its applications to a tree and its fruit, meaning they are closely connected and cannot be separated.

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