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Tag Name "Theory" (1617)

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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 ones 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 is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
Oliver Heaviside
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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 is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
Hermann Hesse
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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 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 and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
William James
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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 looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.
Josh Billings
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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, 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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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 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 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 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 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 provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
David E. Goldberg
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She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
Maureen Johnson
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker
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