The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Ideas - Institute for …
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WEBIn “ The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge ,” he writes, “Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. It is not new. It goes back to Galileo, Bacon, and to Sir Isaac Newton, and it must be absolutely unhampered.”
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