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This kind of support, like all government support, requires decisions about the appropriate recipients of funds. Decisions based on utility as opposed to lack of utility are straightforward. But decision among projects none of which has immediate utility is more difficult. The goal of the supporting agencies is the praisable one of supporting 'good' as opposed to 'bad' science, but a valid determination is difficult to make. Generally, the idea of good science tends to become confused with the capacity of the field in question to generate an elegant theory. However, the world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable to deal with some of the world's more fascinating and delightful aspects. New forms of thought as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise to new standards of elegance.
與所有政府資助項(xiàng)目一樣，這種資助需要確定合適的資金接受對象。根據(jù)某一項(xiàng)目是否具有效用做出決策直接明了。但是在若干沒有直接效用的項(xiàng)目中，要做出抉擇就困難得多。資助機(jī)構(gòu)的目標(biāo)是支持“好”的學(xué)科，而不資助“壞”的學(xué)科，這一點(diǎn)值得贊揚(yáng)，然而要做出正確的抉擇卻很困難。人們往往將好學(xué)科與該學(xué)科是否能夠提出一套完美的理論混淆起來。然而，世界就是如此，完美的體系一般而言是無法解決世上某些更加引人入勝的課題的。同過去一樣，將來必然出現(xiàn)新的思維方式和新的思維對象，給完美以新的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。