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"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin
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"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions." »Louis Pasteur
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"The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology." »Mark Ridley, 1983
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"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." »Sir William Bragg
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Adams
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"A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." »Albert Einstein
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"The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A reasonable probability is the only certainty." »E.W. Howe
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"We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon
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"I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade." »Mary J. Wilson
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." »Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is." »Chuck Reid
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." »Chuck Reid
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"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise." »Lewis Thomas
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"As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event." »Andrew Schneider
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"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts
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"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." »Vannevar Bush
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"Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage." »Aristophanes
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"Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability." »John Perry
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return." »Agatha Christie
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"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have." »Jewel
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"There is nothing more practical than a good theory." »Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
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"A theory must be tempered with reality." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"It is the theory that decides what we can observe." »Albert Einstein
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." »Friedrich Engels
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"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." »Steven Wright
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