Julia Child Quotes

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Look, it's a show-me game. I've got to be able to show it.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

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

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

By far the best proof is experience.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.