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(5) While assuring complete independence and freedom for the nature, scope, and methodology of research carried on in the institutions receiving public funds, and while retaining discretion in the allocation of funds among such institutions, the Foundation proposed herein must be responsible.

(4) Support of basic research in the public and private colleges, universities, and research institutes must leave the internal control of policy, personnel, and the method and scope of the research to the institutions themselves. This is of the utmost importance.

(3) The agency should promote research through contracts or grants to organizations outside the Federal Government. It should not operate any laboratories of its own.

(2) The agency to administer such funds should be composed of citizens selected only on the basis of their interest in and capacity to promote the work of the agency. They should be persons of broad interest in and understanding of the peculiarities of scientific research and education.

(1) Whatever the extent of support may be, there must be stability of funds over a period of years so that long-range programs may be undertaken.

From Science the Endless Frontier:
There are certain basic principles which must underlie the program of Government support for scientific research and education if such support is to be effective and if it is to avoid impairing the very things we seek to foster. These principles are as follows:

I also planted 6 paw paw trees this year. I hope one day I will see the fruit.

Photons are still travelling along a path that is the shortest distance between two points.

Hello Mike, you are right, photons can not bend under newtonian gravity. General relativity makes the prediction that photons will 'bend'. But even in GR the photons are not actually bent, it is that space itself is curved, and photons are following the curvature of space.

Enrico Fermi told Herb Anderson that he was ten times smarter than Herb.
Herb told Bruce Winstein that he was ten times smarter than Bruce.
Bruce told me that he was ten times smarter than me.
I'm a milliFermi.