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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.
How empty is theory in the presence of fact
How empty is theory in the presence of fact
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
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.
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.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may read more
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.
There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for read more
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.
