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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.
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.
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.
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.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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.
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.
