Arthur Eddington Quote

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.


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


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.

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.

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.

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.