Jürgen Renn on the value of seemingly futile scientific discoveries:

"In fact, what is often called useless has been highly valuable to the development of humanity."

In this interview with Gazzetta del Sud, director Jürgen Renn gives his opinion on the improvement of the humanities through the mainstreaming of natural science, outlines the politics of uselessness, and contextualizes the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of an historian of science.