"Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse."

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Source : Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)

Oliver Heaviside

#Knowledge Quotes #Essence Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.”
“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
“As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.”
“I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.”
“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 26, 2010.
“I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.”

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