That Big Science culture in the USA, and similar groups elswhere, tended to have separate, direct access to government and hence to funding sources. … - Philip W. Anderson

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That Big Science culture in the USA, and similar groups elswhere, tended to have separate, direct access to government and hence to funding sources. It was independent to a great extent of the rest of science, of which it was never a majority component except in funding.

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Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist.

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