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. ↗
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something. ↗
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. ↗
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. ↗
