Perhaps no one present on January 15th, 1960 in the auditorium of the former Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana imagined that day would forever mark the Science in Cuba.
The geographer and caver, Dr. Antonio Núñez Jiménez invited our commander in chief to the center, now the National Museum of History of Science Carlos Juan Finlay, to explain to the academic, family and other intellectuals who celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Speleological society of Cuba, the valuable ideas he had forged from Sierra Maestra the young revolutionary leadership over society and thought.
That day was given to Fidel a diploma that accredited him as an honorary member of the Society of Speleology. Modestly the commander explained that he believed he had no merits to integrate it, but ... who better than he actually has done what at the time was an utopia?
Fidel said: The future of our country is necessarily a future of science men, has to be a future of thought men, because it is precisely what we are sowing: opportunities for intelligence.
Today the importance of this speech is palpable in scientific and technical progress in the decentralization of university in the low rate of infant mortality, the development of vaccines against diseases that affect human health and the improvement of plant species to increase production yields.
That morning really did men and women like doctors Antonio Núñez Jiménez and Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin. I continue the creative work is a tribute to who gave birth to the Science Day.
