Theory And Practice Quotes

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Play

  "General Systems" Vol. 7-8, by he Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, (p. 11), 1962.

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• In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Math, Reality

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• Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Practice, Sometimes, Theory

  Message to Linux kernel mailing list, lkml.org. March 25, 2009.

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• There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Practice, Theory, Distinction

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• Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Practice, Requirements

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.30, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

  Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

  Practice, Differences, Theory

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• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Democracies Have, Practice

  to Edwin L James of the New York Times, 1928.

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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• Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

  Charles Kettering

  Teacher, War, Practice

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• Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Skills, Two, Use

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• I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Practice, Firsts

  Nikola Tesla (2002). “Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview”, p.110, 21st Century Books

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• Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Practice, Two, Fool

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.711, Penguin

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• One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.

  George E. P. Box

  Mean, Hands, Practice

  "Science and Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356, (p. 791), December, 1976.

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• Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Responsibility, Practice, Challenges

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• Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

  Mary Jane Holmes

  Practice, Strange, Should

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• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Practice, Ideas, Justice

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• Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

  W. H. Auden

  Practice, Separation, Theory

  "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book" by W. H. Auden, Viking Press, 1st edition, ("Tyranny"), 1970.

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• When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

  Maria Montessori

  Educational, Thinking, Talking

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• Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

  Edward Tufte

  Beautiful, Practice, Design

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• Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

  Maria Montessori

  Educational, Practice, Ideas

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• Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Struggle, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Practice, Atheism, Socialism

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• The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

  David Hilbert

  Practice, Bridges, Giving

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