EEnlow
If we could only say what benefit this thing has. No one's been able to do that...
MProfessor Milgate
That's because great achievement has no road map. Well, the X-ray's pretty good. So is Penicillin. Neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind. I mean, when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless. Now we have an entire world run by electronics. Haydn and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn't--they invented them.
Discovery
MProfessor Milgate
What?
Discovery is what--that's what this is used for. It's for discovery.
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