We need to point NASA somewhere worthy of American scientific ingenuity and STEM-centered scientific enterprise.

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Other ideas will be hatched in newly built incubators, including the Monsanto-backed Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise and the Donald Danforth Plant Center, opening in 2000.

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"Bob Richardson was an extraordinary physicist who used his deep understanding of the scientific enterprise to shape the course of research at Cornell and nationally, " said Cornell President David Skorton.

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But I am mindful of how much farther the American space enterprise must travel to reach the final frontier of space exploration and discover the limits of our own scientific enterprise.

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This publication richly illustrates the inner workings of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, showing the human dimension to this great scientific enterprise which aims to help us understand the origins of the Universe.

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Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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