{"id":24592,"date":"2020-08-18T23:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=24592"},"modified":"2020-08-18T23:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:44:33","slug":"the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=24592","title":{"rendered":"The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fermatslibrary.com\/s\/the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge\">The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A. Flexner &#8211; founder of the Institute for Advanced Study &#8211; believed that scientists shouldn&#39;t worry about the \u201cutility\u201d of their research but be free to explore, driven by their curiosity only then will fundamental discoveries be possible.<br><br>A great read: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lnhvT2y3ix\">https:\/\/t.co\/lnhvT2y3ix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xaieYjsKiz\">pic.twitter.com\/xaieYjsKiz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fermat&#39;s Library (@fermatslibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fermatslibrary\/status\/1295712558658326538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histoire","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24593,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24592\/revisions\/24593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}