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Science Quotes by United Kingdom (2 quotes)
[Edison’s ideas are] good enough for our transatlantic friends … but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men.
— United Kingdom
Committee set up by the British Parliament to look into the effect of Edison’s work on the incandescent lamp on gas company securities, c. 1878, in Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke (1974).
The justification for [basic research] is that this constitutes the fount of all new knowledge, without which the opportunities for further technical progress must eventually become exhausted.
— United Kingdom
From a British government publication, Technological Innovation in Britain (1968), quoted by M. Gibbons and C. Johnson in 'Relationship between Science and Technology', Nature, (11 Jul 1970), 125. As cited in Arie Leegwater, 'Technology and Science', Stephen V. Monsma (ed.), Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective (1986), 79.