best headline

An article in The Atlantic about Einstein provides this 1921 NYT headline, which ran after astronomical observations lent support to his theory of relativity:

"Stars Not Where They Seemed to Be or Were Calculated to Be, but Nobody Need Worry"

I love it, maybe because it manages to captures one of the lessons I've learned over the past few years.

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I found your lovely blog through tracking down the origin of this tattoo. http://aagblog.com/2010/01/24/stars-not-where-they-seemed-or-were-calculated-to-be-but-nobody-need-worry/
February 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
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