Dan Goodman"If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell [scientists] they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they already know what they are going to discover." - David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules.
PhDog 🇮🇪Damn does that hit close to home. We literally spend most of our research money putting together demos for the next round of proposals...