Господа, владеющие худо-бедно английским! Настоятельно рекомендую внимательно прочитать речь президента США Барака Обамы по поводу необходимости развития науки в США. Никакого бахвальства. Критическое отношение к сегодняшней ситуации и конкретные меры по улучшению финансирования, с особым вниманием к фундаментальной науке:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/obamas-call-to-create-not-just-consume/
Мне, в частности, понравились два абзаца в конце:
"Yes, scientific innovation offers us a chance to achieve prosperity. It has offered us benefits that have improved our health and our lives — improvements we take too easily for granted. But it gives us something more. At root, science forces us to reckon with the truth as best as we can ascertain it.
And some truths fill us with awe. Others force us to question long-held views. Science can’t answer every question, and indeed, it seems at times the more we plumb the mysteries of the physical world, the more humble we must be. Science cannot supplant our ethics or our values, our principles or our faith. But science can inform those things and help put those values — these moral sentiments, that faith — can put those things to work — to feed a child, or to heal the sick, to be good stewards of this Earth..."
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