Good science requires the interplay of analysis and synthesis. One never knows if basic research is truly basic until one knows what it is basic to. … - Martin E P Seligman

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Good science requires the interplay of analysis and synthesis. One never knows if basic research is truly basic until one knows what it is basic to. Modern physics came into its own not because of its theories — which can be enormously counterintuitive and highly controversial (muons, wavicles, superstrings, the anthropic principle, and all that) — but because physicists built the atomic bomb and modern nuclear power plants.