Also, even more philosophically, some people forget that the ideal goal of technology and economic activity is to enable us to do what we want to do - like understand things. Treating understanding as a mere means to an end is missing the whole point of life.
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No one has ever put it more eloquently or simply than Henri Poincare, in the first paragraph of his introduction to THE VALUE OF SCIENCE: http://bit.ly/2Qs8NtC
9:10 AM - 7 Nov 2018
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