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But you don't know which spending will be wasted when you spend it
Roger Bamforth 3rd Apr 2009
You cannot decide what to research on based on the return you think you'll get from it, as you never know where the next big thing will come from.

For example, if you had asked in the late 19th century "What should we spend our money on to get the most benefit for medicine?" no-one would have answered "fooling around with electrical discharges in a vacuum". Yet that was the right answer as it led to x-rays.
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