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“Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for people living in the first world, has arisen from the fruits of such research, including all the electric power that drives almost every device we use. Two”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?