Johnson likes the broadoutline but is reserving judgment on the fine detail.
约翰逊喜欢这个大框架,但对小细节则保留看法。
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Though the broadoutline of a scientific theory can be sketched intuitively, when a part of the physical universe is finally understood, its description often looks like a page in a mathematics text.