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Given the number of papers I've read from industry, I doubt we'd have anything resembling science without public funding. Some private engineering perhaps, but
by tensor 13y ago
Given the number of papers I've read from industry, I doubt we'd have anything resembling science without public funding. Some private engineering perhaps, but not science.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoThe governments of yore were truly visionary, to provide public funding for science before the concept even existed.
- dnautics 13y agoCounterexamples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell http://www.janelia.org/ http://www.janelia.org/