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Curiosity-Driven Research Begets Technologies
New transformative technologies like CRISPR typically arise from curiosity-driven basic research through a combination of serendipity and occasional flashes of insight; over-focusing science narrowly on goals like curing cancer at the expense of fundamental curiosity-driven inquiry undermines the very process that produces breakthroughs, so a balance is needed.
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Jennifer DoudnaEvidence Quote
“we also need to have work that's going on that just encourages curious creative people to ask fundamental questions about how the world works. Because it's often through that kind of endeavor that new technologies arise”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:51:37 AM
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