Eric Goldstein - If you don't look for a problem, you won't find it

If you don't look for a problem, you won't find it.

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Referring to the problem of the necessity of using sophisticated technology and instruments to measure air quality:

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Eric Goldstein, Natural Resources Defense Council, Quoted in New York Times, July 23, 1989

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