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Tag Name "Theory" (1635)

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Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
James Cash Penney
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
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Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
David E. Goldberg
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
Gerhard Richter
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Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.
David Bronstein
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
Linus Torvalds
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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
Talcott Parsons
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Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
Hermann Hesse
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Theory can blind observation.
Carol Gilligan
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Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
Josh Billings
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Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Theory is needed to tell you where to look.
Marcus du Sautoy
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Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
Samuel Mockbee
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
William James
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Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.
Robert Ringer
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Theory is continually the precursor of truth we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
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Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.
Hassanal Bolkiah
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Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
Oliver Heaviside
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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
Hosea Ballou
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Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
Alois Podhajsky
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
Charles Ferguson
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