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Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

Jesse L. Greenstein

Theory may often delay understanding of new phenomena observed with new technology unless theorists are quite open-minded as to what types of physical laws may need to be applied: conservatism is unsafe...In astrophysics, historically, theories have only seldom had predictive usefulness as guides to experimenters.

Jesse L. Greenstein