A Quote by John B. S. Haldane

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

John B. S. Haldane

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Algebra Argument Ounce Ton Verbal Worth

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John B. S. Haldane
British - Scientist
November 5, 1892 - December 1, 1964

In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

William S. Burroughs

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Sivananda

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

Michael Josephson

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

J. G. Ballard

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

Charles Spurgeon

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Wilferd Peterson

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

E. F. Schumacher

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

George Monbiot

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Ed Parker

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

John Junor

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

Grenville Kleiser

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

Savielly Tartakower

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

Moondog

They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different.

Israel Gelfand

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