När Robert R. Wilson, direktör för Fermilab, vittnade inför kongressen.

SENATOR PASTORE: Is there anything connected in the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?

/.../

DR. WILSON: [I]t has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things that we really venerate and honor /.../ [I]t has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

https://history.fnal.gov/historical/people/wilson_testimony.html