Quote of the day
Sam Seaborn: [while discussing the importance of funding the “Super-Conductor Super-Collider” - a controversial scientific project that would cost billions:]
Sen. Jack Enlow, D-IL: If we can only say what benefit is in it. No-one has been able to do that.
Dr. Dalton Millgate: That’s because great achievement has no road map; and the X-Ray is pretty good, and so is penicillin, and neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind; and when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless; and now was have an entire world run by electronics. Hayden and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn’t. They invented them.
Sam Seaborn: Discovery.
Dr. Dalton Millgate: What?
Sam Seaborn: That’s the thing that you were… Discovery is what. That’s what this is use for. It’s for discovery !
