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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by vacri on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:50AM (#9503618)
Doing an undergraduate applied science degree, one of my lecturers taught me the phrase "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice, there is."
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by new299 on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:49AM (#9503999)
"The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory" is my favorite version.
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by evanb on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:07AM (#9503664)
He was quoting Yogi Berra.
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Re:Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (2011) by juliangregorian on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:43PM (#9506383)
Maybe. Wikiquote says the attribution came later: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_L._A._van_de_Snepscheut
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