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Mursky.

The benefits from science as they show up in our daily lives are just enormous.

But I want to try and argue that right now science can do something for us give us a kind of hope

that goes beyond just those benefits. Paul Romer, he shared the 2018 Nobel

Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Romer spoke April 9th at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

at an event honoring 10 U.S. Nobel and Cavaly Prize Lorryates.

Now, there's nobody who's got benefits as direct and as immediate as Jim.

Jim Allison, who was also there and who shared the 2018 Nobel in physiology or medicine for his work that led to new drugs against cancer.

You know when you can show there are people alive now because of the discovery you've made that just you know that

trumps everything. Most of us create benefits in an indirect way

and they come in small steps, so they're harder to perceive.

Romer then cited William Nord House,

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