Quote #7
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
More from Mason Cooley
- In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
- Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
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- Self-pity makes people callous.
- Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
- A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
- Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
- Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.