If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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