Incubators Quotes
Although not a scientist, Blackstone observed the advantage of an incubator, science center or other socially and intellectually interactive structure and realized that the cliché of a scientist alone in his laboratory was not the optimum environment in which science would flourish.
Boot argues that there are conditions which tend to foster technological development. Nations which are political unstable, or theocracies, rural, or suffering from food shortages have rarely developed much technology.
Roman citizenship had been reserved only for Romans. However, when Caesar spend extended time in Cleopatra’s Alexandria, he saw the effect of having a great center of learning in a city. It not only improved the quality of life, but the economic effect was profound as even though Rome was the most powerful Empire of the world, Alexandria was much larger, wealthier, and better developed. It was an effect not unlike that of a great university made throughout Europe later and America today. The scholars and intellectuals in sufficient numbers acted like a modern incubator.
