“There is a lesson to be learned from the history of sciences, technology and societies, if you look at the specific needs of each country at defining a scientific policy, policy that can not be the same everywhere: the basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge.”

Il y a une leçon à tirer de l'histoire des sciences, de la technologie et des sociétés, si l'on regarde les besoins spécifiques de chaque pays pour définir une politique scientifique, politique qui ne peut pas être identique partout : la base de tout, c'est l'éducation des gens, pour qu'ils soient non seulement compétents, mais surtout capables de créer de nouvelles connaissances.
in Science et développement: une politique scientifique peut-elle tirer un enseignement de l'histoire des sciences, in an edition by [Patrick Petitjean, Catherine Jami, Anne Marie Moulin, Science and empires: historical studies about scientific development and European expansion, Springer, 1992, 0792315189, 370]

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Il y a une leçon à tirer de l'histoire des sciences, de la technologie et des sociétés, si l'on regarde les besoins spécifiques de chaque pays pour définir une politique scientifique, politique qui ne peut pas être identique partout : la base de tout, c'est l'éducation des gens, pour qu'ils soient non seulement compétents, mais surtout capables de créer de nouvelles connaissances.

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