WE MUST FUND INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE LONG TERM
(a call to action)
http://www.jonmsterling.com/jms-013G.xml
“I am calling for the endowment and funding of independent research institutions on a permanent or decades-long basis, whose mission is not bound to a specific tool but rather to a set of scientific principles and society-level goals to be achieved on a generational timescale. … It is time for us to build and sustain the scaffolding for the next three centuries of Science.”