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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
How empty is theory in the presence of fact
How empty is theory in the presence of fact
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.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
