Mar 24, 2015
3 min read
The Dumbest Question You Can Ask a Scientist
No one who knows the history of science would ask this question.
The dumbest question you can ask a scientist — or any other creator, inventor, or discoverer — about his or her work is,
“What’s the economic value?”
One reason: In 1888, after eight years of experiments, Heinrich Hertz created electromagnetic waves in…
