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“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.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”
Albert Einstein
“How empty is theory in the presence of fact”
Mark Twain
“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Marge, I agree with you -- in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.”
Dan Castellaneta
“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.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory”
Thomas Jefferson
“Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve”
Pehyl Hsieh
“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics”
“I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.”
Jim Morrison