Victor Pelevin. Secret views of mount Fuji (№ 354699)

- And other countries that protect? - said Rinat.
- How when I replied. So I as a child loved to read about physicists. There was an American scholar Robert Wilson. In the late sixties, he was knocked out in the investigation into the particle accelerator. And some Senator take it and say: tell me, is this your accelerator will strengthen the country's defense? No, says Wilson, will not allow. The Senator asks, why then? And Wilson answered him - accelerator belongs to the same category as great poetry, painting, sculpture and so on. All this seriously isn't helping to defend the country. But makes it worthwhile to protect.