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Research should NEVER be limited by whether it has practical value or not. Because we don't know if future generations will make it practical.
by wesleywt 5y ago
Research should NEVER be limited by whether it has practical value or not. Because we don't know if future generations will make it practical.
- XorNot 5y agoExactly. Any research which takes something we don't know, and turns it into something we now know, is valuable.
- ncmncm 5y agoResearch is ALWAYS limited to what the person performing it considered practical. Getting a paper published is as practical as most researchers need to get. (Some do more.) If they don't publish, they soon don't get to do research anymore, and have to start doing what somebody else considers practical.
- wesleywt 5y agoYou missed the word I wrote "should". Funding agencies want to fund only "practical" research. But studying the migratory patterns of a single species of butterfly should be funded as much as the latest biotech fad that supposedly is of "practical value".