<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Theory - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59110]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is so unlike theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59104]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item></channel></rss>