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Confessions of a technophile (1995)
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I distinguish two kinds of "applied" research: problem-solving research — government or commercially initiated, centrally managed and institutionally coupled to a plan for application of the results, useful science — investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated. Then we have basic science — useful also, also investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated.
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The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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Lewis M. Branscomb
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Born:
August 17, 1926
Died:
May 31, 2023
(aged 96)
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