Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Acknowledging a sad reality

Bei-Lok Hu has a nice paper on the arXiv, Emergence: Key physical issues for deeper philosophical inquiries. The acknowledgements end with the poignant (and sad) observation:
 This kind of non mission-driven, non utilitarian work addressing purely intellectual issues is not expected to be supported by any U.S. grant agency.

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