The New York Times - MARCH 15, 2014
Last
April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august
scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. Joking that
his grades in physics made him a dubious candidate for “scientist in
chief,” he spoke of using technological innovation “to grow our
economy” and unveiled “the next great American project”: a $100 million
initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain.
Along
the way, he invoked the government’s leading role in a history of
scientific glories, from putting a man on the moon to creating the
Internet. The Brain initiative,
as he described it, would be a continuation of that grand tradition, an
ambitious rebuttal to deep cuts in federal financing for scientific
research.
“We can’t afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of the world races ahead,” Mr. Obama said.
“We have to seize them. I don’t want the next job-creating discoveries
to happen in China or India or Germany. I want them to happen right
here.”
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