For a bit more background on Grothendieck's position on science, I've recently translated Grothendieck's talk on science at CERN, which was quite hard to find at some point: https://github.com/Lapin0t/grothendieck-cern/.
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>I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that prevails today, will come to the fore.
>In general, people see two extreme alternatives and see no middle ground between the two. If the person I'm talking to has chosen a certain alternative and I have a vision that lies beyond the one they considers good, they'll immediately accuse me of having chosen the opposite extreme alternative, because they can't see the middle ground.
>I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that prevails today, will come to the fore.
>In general, people see two extreme alternatives and see no middle ground between the two. If the person I'm talking to has chosen a certain alternative and I have a vision that lies beyond the one they considers good, they'll immediately accuse me of having chosen the opposite extreme alternative, because they can't see the middle ground.