It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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Small stars that formed by gravitational collapse, the theory goes, will have a similar make-up to their parent stars, since they both emerged from the same cloud.

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Like the hard landing theory, Way is not subscribing to a housing collapse either.

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Lerach's Enron case worries other lawyers, who say his theory could entangle just about anybody involved in a business collapse.

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