Prizes for natural science are rarely given to theory makers until their theories have survived contact with observation and experiment.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prizes

Today, science is the religion to which we try and understand reality and science is more about seeking perceptual validation through observation, through experiment theory.

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His books consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of his original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.

NEWYORKER: None of the Above