When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner wh…

Richard P. Feynman
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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his bias was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!
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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his bias was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!

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