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The Beagle voyage was a Royal Navy project, and it had a defined purpose: charting. Having a young naturalist onboard was rational because what if you found the next tea plant? The captain of the ship remained an implacable opponent to Darwin’s later theories. I believe Bell labs was mostly a fig leaf for covering up Bell’s legal monopoly (i.e. look, we’re doing some good stuff with all the money you’re legally obliged to pay us)