Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:13:43 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
The researcher's raison d'etre
In the coming century a researcher will not simply be an inventor, but
also a communicator who transmits the world's most advanced scientific
achievements and thoughts to society, and who keeps the large scientific
and educational "factories" of local societies in a state of good repair.
This means that he is an inventor, an importer of knowledge and a
maintenance person all in one. We, as researchers, are both globally
minded scholars and locally committed citizens. And we are responsible
for the level of knowledge and also for the competitiveness of the local
society.
Ferenc Glatz
President
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
In his opening address: Science in the 21st century
At the World Conference on Science, in Budapest in 1999
(UNESCO:2000)
