unapplied

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It's in the pure or unapplied kind of realm of the sciences that is just exploratory.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

Largely ignored, as a result, is the daring and unapplied "basic" research on which such teams as A.T.&T.'s Bell Laboratories thrive.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is my story," continued Slow-toes, "and its application is for the wise:— 'Sentences of studied wisdom, nought avail they unapplied; Though the blind man hold a lantern, yet his footsteps stray aside.'

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

So understood, the maxim encourages mechanical routine or sensuous excitation at one end of the educational scale—the lower—and academic and unapplied learning at the upper end.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

We are coming to admit the fact now that “pure” language and “pure” mathematics unapplied to actual problems are, for the mass of boys and girls, not only uninteresting but astonishingly unproductive of mental results.

From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William