If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
思想比枪更强大。我们不会让敌人拥有枪,为什么要让他们拥有思想?
The architect must be a poet, but a poet who builds.