29 August 2013 - science car
< yesterday --
tomorrow >
science: Now, the long-term goal is to explore Newton’s great
ocean of truth—
money: An ocean, can’t miss it, shortest path is a straight line.
car: Voom!
science: Whoah whoah! We can’t just strike out at random, we
have start from what we know and explore promising directions.
money: Oh, I see exactly what you mean.
car: Swerrrrrrrrve!
science: Uh... in general, downhill tends to be more promising.
money: That ditch is downhill.
car: Thud.
science: I would have settled for a fishpond of truth.
clue:
After WWII there was a great boom in acceptance of basic research,
and since then the pendulum has been slowly but surely swinging back
to short-term thinking.
give me a clue so sweet and true