> Whitehead explains how Machael Faraday discovered the laws of induction between currents and magnets back in 1831-32. “What is the use of this discovery?” som

> Whitehead explains how Machael Faraday discovered the laws of induction between currents and magnets back in 1831-32. “What is the use of this discovery?” someone asked. “What’s the use of child—it grows to be a man,” he responded. To quote Whitehead, “Faraday’s child has grown to be a man and is now the basis of all the modern applications of electricity.” There's a difference between working on something because it is interesting and fun, essentially "hacker mentality" and it turning into something special vs pure theory and it never having use. One tinkers with the world building things, the other just adds complexity to abstract ideas with no utility. tl;dr Faraday was a tinkerer, pure theory are fiction world builders.