I have spoken already about funding and about the role of social purpose. Let me add here a point about the latter. Not everything in science needs to be focused on application. Indeed history proves that critical, insight-giving fundamental work often provides the largest new stimuli for further progress. My favorite in this list of elements, rarely mentioned otherwise, is personal fascination.
Fascination is among the highest and best of human motivations.
A great fraction of creativity in science, the arts, and many other fields derives from it. In a cynical, pragmatic world, it simply evaporates from the human soul. Invaluable indeed it is, and we should find deliberate ways to honor it, to cultivate it, and to allow it to flower. The last element on my list is room for entrepreneurship. With this remark, Dewey placed an emphasis on the dual importance of the individual and venturesome thought.