‘Science flourishes when left free without big directions’: laureate Stefan Hell

Bengaluru: Science flourishes when left free without big directions as to where it should go, said German national scientist and 2014 Chemistry Nobel laureate Stefan Hell at the 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC). “Real transformations in science do not come in a planned way. And therefore it is not really possible to plan, so we cannot really plan what we were discovering for in the end. What we were hoping for,” said Hell at an interaction on the sidelines of the science congress in this tech hub on Saturday. (IANS)

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