SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS A TOKEN OF HUMANKIND'S SURVIVAL by Vladimir Keilis-Borok
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS A TOKEN OF HUMANKIND'S SURVIVAL Vladimir Keilis-Borok (1921-2013) Introduction This essay "Scientific Research is a Token of Humankind Survival" has been written by Vladimir Keilis-Borok, a Russian mathematical, geophysicist and seismologist. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the research group leader of the International Institute for Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Science. He was also Co-director (and Founder) of the Research Programme on non-linear dynamics and earthquake prediction of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. In the essay 'Scientific Research is a Token of Humankind’s Survival', Keilis-Borok says about his profession as a scientist, and views that science is the humankinds’ indispensable guardian and caretaker. This essay has presented the facts related to science and its outstanding contribution to the lives of the...