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The West Wing, Season Three

The West Wing (1999-2006) is a television show about a fictional United States presidential administration, set mainly in the West Wing of the White House. more »

Senator 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.

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