While applied stuff is great, and I love this thread, sometimes it's also good to feel comfortable to admit that basic science is "just" basic science. Some science might never have a practical use. And that's fine. We've decided as a society to fund basic research in of itself.https://twitter.com/stevenjluck/status/1063816214387015680 …
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I don't want anybody to think that if we can't (yet/ever) have a practical use for something that it's a priori not worth doing. I say this in part because I've seen these arguments sometimes, especially used against academia more broadly (like against arts and humanities).
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The crux here is that each person, especially as a function of political ideology, has a different metric to answer "is this research useful outside academia?" Many would love to kill off basic research and, e.g., just do engineering. Basic research has value in its own right.
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