In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science the way you had to be in England in the 17th 18th centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can and the information that they need to do it is there.
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Nevertheless as is a frequent occurrence in science a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
