For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know,… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health,… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image