The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete.
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finding out that he was not a theoretical but an experimental physicist, as quoted in his biographical memoir. Jesse L. Greenstein (1998). Robert B. Leighton, 1919—1996, Biographical Memoirs v.75. National Academy of Sciences. p. 164. ISBN 0-309-06295-0.Robert B. Leighton (physicist)
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It is easy to see that this problem can be solved neither in theoretical nor in practical philosophy, but only in a higher discipline, which is the link that combines them, and neither theoretical nor practical, but both at once.
Friedrich Schelling
Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.
Mitch Hedberg
The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.
Immanuel Kant
The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.
Quentin Crisp
To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat — of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them — or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
L. Neil Smith
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