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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.
I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.
It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.
I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.