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.
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"
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