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... The Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), a project of The World Bank and the Science Initiative Group, is an international initiative to build capacity in science and ...
... The Millennium Science Initiative came into being over the course of several years, building on the rich history of previous attempts to build S T capacity in the developing world ... These attempts have included programs of the The Academy of Science for the Developing World, UNESCO, ICSU, the European Union, private foundations, Scandinavian aid organizations ... The specific concept for the MSI represents the confluence of two initiatives ...
Famous quotes containing the words initiative and/or science:
“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens ... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand ... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)