In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
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The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
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