Ralph Waldo Emerson: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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This expression is widely misattributed to Emerson in journalism, This expression is widely misattributed to Emerson in journalism, tweets, and memes on the internet. This quotation in an earlier phrasing of Jared Eliot's statement “It used to be the Saying of an old Man, That an Ounce of Experience is better than a Pound of Science.” (Essays upon Field Husbandry,