“Any theory or finding, especially if controversial,
always rests on a fine knife edge….”
“It is a truism that nothing is sadder than
the murder of a beautiful theory by a nasty little fact.”
— Statements by one Irving Rothchild in his article
“Induction, Deduction and the Scientific Method”
See as well this journal on the above Nasty Little Man date —
“compelling formula” vs. “intricate complexity.”