Their caution in the face of the result—the public statements that it is probably explained by experimental error, even though the researchers involved have been over their equipment with a fine-tooth comb—is understandable. No one wants to get egg on his face by having missed something obvious.
Modern physicists, aware of the hubris of their 19th-century predecessors, have never thought their subject closed
现代的物理学家们,深知其19世纪前辈们的狂妄自大,认为物理学的研究永远不会终结
Their caution in the face of the result—the public statements that it is probably explained by experimental error, even though the researchers involved have been over their equipment with a fine-tooth comb—is understandable.No one wants to get egg on his face by having missed something obvious.