"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
— Observation

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Eddington, as quoted in "Annals of Science II-DNA" by Horace Freeland Judson in The New Yorker (4 December 1978), p. 132