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Praktiska experiment är mycket roligare än teoretiska. Ett räknefel i en teoretisk modell exploderar inte lika vackert som i experimentet!


 First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it
  William James

 How empty is theory in the presence of fact
  Mark Twain

 An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
  Friedrich Engels

 If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

 If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

 It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena
  William Whewell

 She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the superficiality of modern dating. It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena
  William Whewell

 Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory
  William Wordsworth

 The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
  Adam Smith

 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

 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.
  Buddha

 Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories

 Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories

 If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

 It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.


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