It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, ‘My God what have I done?
The number of scientific papers published by researchers in the United States was almosts as many as were published by the next two highest-publishing populations China and Japan together.Germany and the United Kingdom and complete the Top 5.
There is more scientific research, or publication of results, in richer territories. This locational bias is such that roughly three times more scientific papers per person living there are published in Western Europe, North America, and Japan, than in any other region.
