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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

—Alfred North Whitehead
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

—Alan Watts
Gray, worthy friend, is all your theory
And green the golden tree of life.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Logic is the theory we constantly abuse.

—Monk Frost (08/12/2009)
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

—Vince Lombardi
The harder I practice, the luckier I get.

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

—Thomas Huxley
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

—Donald Knuth (1977)
False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

—Charles Darwin
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

—Yogi Berra
Constant is the rumor we adhere to, as the theory we cling to.

—Monk Frost (14/02/2010)
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—Robert Anton Wilson
The philosophical quest became obscured in the modern West by the linear succession of schools, each resulting from a violent reaction to its predecessors, each claiming to possess the Truth more or less exclusively, and often insisting upon the sole validity of its method of proceeding. The slavish concern with academic respectability and the fear of anathemization resulted in the increasing alienation of thought from being, of cognition from conduct, and philosophical disputation from the problems of daily life.

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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

—Isaac Asimov
Anxious our mind of query never to solve the theory

—Monk Frost (03/02/2010)
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

—T. S. Eliot
You must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

—Sophocles
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
A conjecture can be dressed up as a dead certainty with enough rhetoric and protected against dissent with enough threatening language, but finally it has to meet the only test of science, which is that any theory must fit the facts, and the facts can't be altered to suit the theory.

—Clive James (23/10/2009)

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