Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
Interpretation
Infrastructure is essential for development and agriculture in Africa.
The quote emphasizes the critical role that infrastructure, particularly roads, plays in the development of Africa. By providing access to knowledge, resources, and markets, roads facilitate agricultural productivity and commerce, enabling farmers to innovate and thrive economically.
In practice
In a speech about economic development, one might say, 'As Norman Borlaug wisely noted, Africa needs roads to promote growth and innovation.'
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.
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