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Money for postgraduate research is limited. Therefore, some people think that financial support from governments should be provided for scientific research rather than research for less useful subjects. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include an relevant examples from your knowledge or experience. 范文： With limited public funding, many countries tend to give priorities to research for hard sciences rather than soft sciences. This does not necessarily mean that the former is the only experimental development that counts, nor that the latter refers to apparently less useful subjects. While research on the both can benefit society as a whole in different ways, it is possible that research on such hard subjects as biology, chemistry and physics requires a larger share of financial support from governments. In search for knowledge, a postgraduate research project in any academic disciplines costs money to make a difference, so public funding should not be provided exclusively for whatever research. The definition of research, in the broadest sense of the word, includes any gathering of data and facts for the advancement of non-scientific as well as strictly scientific knowledge. It is because the research results in the soft fields known as social studies are concerned with society and human behavior. That is to say, social science is the study of society and the manner in which people behave influences the world around us. Indeed, unlike scientists dedicated to hard subjects, researchers in social studies actually influence our lives without our being aware they are doing so. Hence, it is not exactly fair to think that research on social studies should not need public funding simply for being considered as less useful subjects. | 
