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Excerpt from The Organization of Industrial Scientific Research
The purposes for which research may be undertaken are diverse. A research may be started with the object of advancing pure knowledge or, on the other hand, with the purpose of facilitating industrial pro duction and making commercial profit, yet the methods and results will be similar in the two cases, and it is usually impossible to predict whether the value of any projected research work will be greater in its in du strial applications or in the advancement of knowl edge. In many cases those very researches which have been undertaken in the interests of pure science have proved to be of the greatest value to industry.
Some forms of scientific research are applicable only in the smallest degree to industrial production. The work of the astronomer or of the comparative anatomist would appear to have very little possibility of application, but other branches of science closely allied to these are of the greatest industrial importance. Thus, the work of the illuminating engineer, who re quires photometric apparatus designed on exactly the same principle as that used by the astronomer, or of the entomologist, whose work is closely related to that of the comparative anatomist, has the most direct application to industrial lighting or to agriculture.
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