The Four Quadrants of Engineering and Research

If you can't see the end of the road, even if it's not for something that advances our understanding or builds a theory, I call that research. Tycho Brahe had an enormous and elaborate observatory on an island funded by the Danish government,. It was actually a couple percent of their GDP at the time to observe the stars. He generated data, and his employee Kepler used that data to come up with the theory of elliptical orbits. But all these quadrants are connected. Wikipedia and Donald Stokes did a disservice to one of the most important activities in science today.