Thomas, Uwe
European Universities and the Bologna Process
My lecture on European universities in the Bologna process is divided into four parts.
The first section examines science and its relationship to government. A famous German scientist, Goethe, who was also a politician and poet, coined a delightful sentence about science: "to one man it is the highest thing, a heavenly goddess; to another it is a productive and proficient cow who supplies him with butter." Whoever wants butter has to give the cow plenty to eat, but even goddesses cannot live on air alone.
