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How empty is theory in the presence of fact
How empty is theory in the presence of fact
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never read more
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.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
[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.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
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.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.