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Models are fundamental to the scientific enterprise because they are required to quantify theories and make predictions for the future.

“models are absolutely fundamental to the scientific enterprise right you know if you want to make a prediction for something that's going to happen to be able to test your theories you have to be able to quantify that you quantify that using a model”

StarTalk · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 358K views on this topic

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