Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understand…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). Maxims and Reflections, p.174, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). Maxims and Reflections, p.174, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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