True but I wanted a literal shower thought
Comment on Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Is been an hour and no one yet has quoted:
In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it isn’t.
JackLSauce@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The earliest strong match located by QI appeared 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.
quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/14/theory/
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Thank you! I’ve heard the quote a few times, but never known the source. And I’ve always been pretty sure I was misquoting it.