"Data, seeming facts, apparent associations-these are not certain knowledge of something. They may be puzzles that can one day be explained; they may be trivia that need not be explained at all."
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Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (1979), Ch. 1 : Laws and Theories
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