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- From: maj@waikato.ac.nz
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- Subject: Re: Source wanted for: "There is nothing so practical as a good theory"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.085628.12333@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 08:56:28 +1300
- References: <Bxy4BC.LGE@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <Bxy4BC.LGE@acsu.buffalo.edu>, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
- > I have heard several times a quote that goes something like this:
- >
- > "There is nothing so practical as a good theory"
- >
- > Can anyone tell me the source, and also the exact original wording if
- > that is not it? We suspect that is was Alexander Graham Bell or Thomas
- > Edison or some such person.
- >
- > Thanks in advance!
- >
- > David Mark
- > dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu
-
- I can't really help you with this one, but it puts me in
- mind of another of my favourite sayings -
-
- 'It works in practice, but not in theory'.
-
- [ The context for this was one of our 'new right' economists
- speaking of the NZ Dairy Board, a producer cooperative that
- may be the world's largest trader in dairy products. ]
- --
- Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ] University of Waikato
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hamilton, New Zealand
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