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Indeed, why should society support basic research at all? Our colleagues at Fermilab deal with this question a lot; they have created a Web page summarizing the benefits of supporting basic science. Top (The source for many of these questions and answers is Cosmic Bullets, written by Roger Clay and Bruce Dawson.
