This is so vapidly specious: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-basic-science-1445613954 …. I'm surprised people are even linking to it.pic.twitter.com/Yz2IPhxGUX
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Take the telephone. Apart from Maxwell, Faraday, Henry, [...1,000 others...], it was mostly just tinkering.pic.twitter.com/t1kKUoX39k
Or the transistor. Apart from Bardeen's developments in quantum mechanics, the development of germanium diodes, etc., tinkering!
@patrickc Maybe writer fooled by that Clarke quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." #ScienceNotMagic
@patrickc thousands of perpetual motion tinkerers throughout history have proven that ignoring foundational science isn't "productive".
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