Catherine Bréchignac Quotations

Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is an Officer of the Légion d'honneur, President of the International Council for Science and president and former director of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research"), Europe's largest scientific body.

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In the labs, the young make things move, and the older ones follow like parents evolving with their children.
- quoted in At the centre of revolution in research, The Times Higher Education, April 14, 2000.