Research in this country is going down.
I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.