second, the old model that we sort of of light from francis bacon centuries ago is the way science operates is to gather sunday the. you come up with some experience and neither confirms nor does not confirm, provisionally confirms or does not come from the hypothesis and that is the way that it operates a store for the basic examination and that sounds possible but it turns out none of this describes how science has worked. my goodness i discovered the steam engine. it develops out of people looking at current technology, practical people and thinking i need to adopt this to my needs. then they solve their problems sort of on the spot. when the department of defense did a study not long ago and they said how many of our great research breakthroughs came as a result of basic science starting from scratch packs they looked at 700 projects what science comes from is applied science and so it turns out that there has been far more funding of science as a percentage of gdp by the private sector research foundations, and letcher science in the age before we had income state taxes. governments ha