"... Defense physics is generally ; it solves problems by applying other physicists' more basic work. Its result is usually not knowledge but technology. The adjective applied, when used by physicists, is not a compliment. Academic physics is pure research; its direction is determined by what academics are curious about and can get funding for. It is, of all the sciences, the most fundamental; its questions are about matter's basic nature and the forces that govern the known universe. Moreover, pure research is considered innocent, neither moral nor immoral. Applied research, whose technologies have potential for harm, comes accompanied by difficult moral decisions."
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Ann Finkbeiner
(born 1943) is an American science journalist, known for the . Her book reviews have appeared in ', ', and '. She has also written three books and contributed to ', ', ', ', ', ', and '. For two decades, she was a teacher and director for a graduate science-writing program at .
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