Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. ↗
The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗
And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action. ↗
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe. ↗