Why Fund Basic Research?

September 18th, 2007 Chris Posted in Uncategorized |

The true power of things like abstract math and experimental science is not that it enables to invent things which we have conceived of but do not have, it is that it enables us to conceive of entirely new things which previously did not even exist in imagination.

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