Almost eight decades ago, the American educationalist Abraham Flexner published an essay entitled The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. In it, he argued that the most powerful intellectual and technological breakthroughs usually emerged from research that initially appeared “useless”, without much relevance to real life.
近80年前,美国教育家亚伯拉罕•弗莱克斯纳(Abraham Flexner)发表了一篇题为《无用知识的有用性》(The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge)的论文。他认为,最强大的知识和技术突破通常来自于最初看来“无用”、与现实生活没太大关系的研究。
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