[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.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither read more

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

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way read more

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.

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.

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.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

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.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact

How empty is theory in the presence of fact