"The justification for [basic research] is that this constitutes the fount of all new knowledge, without which the opportunities for further technical progress must eventually become exhausted."
— Science

January 1, 1970

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From a British government publication, "Technological Innovation in Britain" (1968), quoted in M. Gibbons and C. Johnson, "Relationship between Science and Technology", Nature (11 July 1970), p. 125; as cited in Arie Leegwater, "Technology and Science", Stephen V. Monsma (ed.) Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective (1986), p. 79