Theoretical

Examples

• Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The emphasis in school upon this particular tool has, however, its dangers--dangers which are not theoretical but exhibited in practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But if the thinker sees at all deeply into the life of his own time, his theoretical system will rest upon observation of human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But without much success: his contact with American life is not direct, and so he is capable of purely theoretical affirmations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But their practic al achievements far transcended their theoretical formulations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They rest nearly always upon theoretical assumptions of the slenderest kind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We cannot wait in politics for any completed theoretical discussion of its method: it is a monstrous demand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was conscious of the practical, as well as the theoretical, import of his investigation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His theoretical grounds for ignoring the question in politics are very interesting just because they are vitalized by this practical difficulty which he faced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a small part of THIS VERY THING; only the time was not ripe; theoretical knowledge was not ready for it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Phillipe Lebon, a French engineer, in 1799 and in 1801 anticipated in a theoretical way many ideas since successfully reduced to practice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But like so many theoretical riddles, this one rested on a very simple piece of ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We deprive anarchists of free speech by the heavy hand of a police magistrate, and furnish them with a practical instead of a theoretical argument against government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such is the situation as an affair of theoretical psychology and as most adequately stated by Aristotle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For scientific men would have been thought to be mere theoretical dreamers, totally lacking in social efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Similarly, to the nineteenth century thirteen important theoretical discoveries are ascribed, to the eighteenth only two, and to the seventeenth five. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A few bilious Britons there were who would not subscribe to this article of faith; but their objection was purely theoretical. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Nevertheless, having received fresh instructions from Adams relative to the theoretical place of the new planet, he began observations July 29. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Poincaré is inclined to account for these sudden solutions of theoretical difficulties on the assumption of long periods of previous unconscious work. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• My theoretical and his practical knowledge together could not have failed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here again, howev er, it is the fundamental, the indispensable, the practical forms of knowledge that stand revealed rather than the theoretical, speculative, and purely intellectual. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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