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Originally Posted by Edster
The celebrated "anthropologist" Albert Einstein is said to have said"
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not".
Ed
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In “The Yale Literary Magazine” of February 1882, which was written and edited by students,
Benjamin Brewster, who was a member of the class of 1882, wrote about an argument he had engaged in with a philosophical friend about theory versus practice. His companion accused him of committing a vulgar error.
His response:
"I heard no more, for I was lost in self-reproach that I had been the victim of “vulgar error.” But afterwards, a kind of haunting doubt came over me. What does his lucid explanation amount to but this,
that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is?"
Einstein would have been 3 years old at the time.
