results of each catch. After extensive sampling, the scientist concluded that there were no fish smaller than two inches in the sea. The moral of Sir Eddington's analogy is twofold. First, scientific instruments are shaped by people’s intuitive theories of the phenomena to be investigated. Second, once devel

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ew York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949), p. 4. AceValue is in activity" A A s..s Brillouin, op. cit., p. 100. aceOnly the final sum matters" A A 65. Eddington, op. cit., p. 142. AcePhysical science consists . . . impenetrable mathematical symbol" A A 0_6_, Stevens, aceThe Man with the Blue Guitar,' in Coll

evidence, once wrote a hoax paper while a postdoc poking fun at a paper he deemed ridiculous by the famous physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. Eddington claimed to "derive" a fundamental constant of electromagne- tism using some fundamental principles, but Bethe correctly viewed the claim as nothing

ults of each catch. After extensive sampling, the scientist concluded that there were no fish smaller than two inches in the sea. The moral of Sir Eddington's analogy is twofold. First, scientific instruments are shaped by people's intuitive theories of the phenomena to be investigated. Second, once d