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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.

by Thomas Huxley Found in: Theory Quotes,
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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.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Theory Quotes,
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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.

by Yogi Berra Found in: Theory Quotes,
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How empty is theory in the presence of fact

How empty is theory in the presence of fact

by Mark Twain Found in: Theory Quotes,
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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in read more

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.

by Thomas A. Edison Found in: Theory Quotes,
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Life is so unlike theory.

Life is so unlike theory.

by Anthony Trollope Found in: Theory Quotes,
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

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A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.

by Ed Howe Found in: Theory Quotes,
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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.

by Henry Louis Mencken Found in: Theory Quotes,
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