A Quote by Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Samuel Johnson

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Theory Travels

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

Ella Maillart

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Theodore Roosevelt

I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.

Bobby Keys

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

Shams Tabrizi

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

Hernan Cortes

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Hal Borland

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

Clayton Christensen

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Bertrand Russell

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Ivar Giaever

I like to call it the scalar boson because this reflects an essential component of the theory - it means that the field the boson travels through has no preferred direction, unlike the way a magnetic field does.