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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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"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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"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

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"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

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"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."

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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."

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"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."

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"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."

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"Funeral by funeral, theory advances."

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"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."

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"Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise."
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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."
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"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."
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