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[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very read more
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, read more
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.
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics