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No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.
Harlow Shapley
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Harlow Shapley
Age: 86 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 2
Died: 1972
Died: October 20
Astronomer
University Teacher
Nashville
Missouri
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