The West Wing Quote
Enlow: If we could only say what benefit this thing has. No one’s been able to do that...
Professor Milgate: That’s because great achievement has no road map. Well, the X-ray’s pretty good. So is Penicillin. Neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind. I mean, when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless. Now we have an entire world run by electronics. Haydn and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn’t—they invented them.
Sam: Discovery
Professor Milgate: What?
Sam: Discovery is what—that's what this is used for. It's for discovery.
Professor Milgate: That’s because great achievement has no road map. Well, the X-ray’s pretty good. So is Penicillin. Neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind. I mean, when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless. Now we have an entire world run by electronics. Haydn and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn’t—they invented them.
Sam: Discovery
Professor Milgate: What?
Sam: Discovery is what—that's what this is used for. It's for discovery.
TV Show: The West Wing
