Monday, January 02, 2012
Public Expenditures
Sue Hubbell, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1993), p. 73 (my additions in square brackets):
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But despite the evidence that science continues to give us that ours is not the only game in town, we humans still continue to act as though we are the focus of everything that is interesting and important. Animals such as daddy longlegs, even though they are ubiquitous and easily observable, do not have an obvious relationship to us, and therefore are of little interest or importance to grant givers. If anything is to be learned about them it will be by people like [Robert] Hooke or [Alfred] Tulk, who enjoy astonishment; like [James C.] Cokendolpher, who can confess that his work is "really exciting"; like Arlan [L. Edgar], who carries out his research on his own time and with considerable glee.I would rather see tax dollars spent on the scientific study of animals such as daddy longlegs, than on over-priced, unnecessary military hardware and ineffective social programs.
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