How empty is theory in the presence of fact

How empty is theory in the presence of fact

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

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.

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

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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.

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.

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.