Sentence examples for financed science from inspiring English sources
For publicly financed science research, the Obama administration agrees.
IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science.
The device has so far cost taxpayers more than $5 billion, making it one of the most expensive federally financed science projects ever.
The biggest of these, in my view, is the shortage of long term capacity in the system, especially in the publicly financed science system.
The failure could have broad repercussions not only for the big laser, which is based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, but also for federally financed science projects in general.
And, as those who finance science need reminding, natural history matters.
Although the Pentagon regularly finances science and engineering research, systematic support for the social sciences and humanities has been rare.
Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, looks to the federal government to finance science, math and engineering education and the kind of basic research that can produce valuable industrial spinoffs.
Some years back, I attended a meeting with a high-ranking civil servant with a background in the humanities who asked the scientists in attendance whether government should stop financing science and let others (eg the US) do it instead.
In a report last month, the American Association for the Advancement of Science said the Bush administration, to live up to its pledge to halve the nation's budget deficit in the next five years, would cut research financing at 21 of 24 federal agencies -- all those that do or finance science except those involved in space and national and domestic security.
But a State Department official, Richard J. K. Stratford, acting deputy assistant secretary for nuclear nonproliferation policy, who was testifying about a program run by his department to finance science centers in the former Soviet Union, said, "You could argue if you give Russia a dollar for whatever purpose, it frees up a dollar that can then be spent elsewhere".
