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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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 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.
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.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
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.
[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.
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.
Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.