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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."

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"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."

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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."

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"Theories pass. The frog remains."

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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

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"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."

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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."

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"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."

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"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."

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"I don't like writing essays or theory."

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"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."

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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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