Cross Section: Robbert Dijkgraaf – Science Weekly podcast
by Presented by Nicola Davis and produced by Max Sand from on (#2RSS6)
This week, Nicola Davis sits down with mathematical physicist Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf to discuss The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
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In 1939, Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, published an essay entitled The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. Which, as the name suggests, was was an ode to curiosity-driven research.
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