Krast said to Kyasov with self-mocking laughter, "If I had known Vienna would become what it is today, I might as well have agreed to you two months ago and left this place of turmoil."
"It is not too late even now," Kyasov replied. "Academician Krast, the most important reason we have remained in Vienna is to recruit talents like yourselves, so that you may continue to shine and generate heat for the progress of human society."
"The Austrian Academy of Sciences is unlikely to reopen anytime soon. Moreover, whether the Austro-Hungarian Empire will continue to exist in the future is hard to say, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences depends on imperial financial support."
The Austro-Hungarian Empire had two nationwide academic centers, Vienna and Budapest, as well as two academies of sciences: the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Under the Austro-Hungarian system, Austria included regions such as Bohemia, Venice, Slovenia, and Dalmatia. Therefore, the Austrian Academy of Sciences did not serve Austria alone; its funding likewise came from contributions from those regions.
It needed to be said that the Austro-Hungarian Empire's science, technology, and education had been extremely strong, particularly in fields such as physics, mathematics, and medicine.
John von Neumann, Erwin Schrodinger, Ludwig Boltzmann, Lise Meitner, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Edward Teller, Theodore von Kármán...
Among them, Austro-Hungarian scientists such as Lise Meitner and Nikola Tesla had long since settled and worked in East Africa.
These figures whose names had thundered in people's ears in his previous life were all Austro-Hungarians.
It was only that in his previous life, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated following World War I, the talents it had cultivated and many of its scientific achievements had benefited the United States and Germany. In the end, after Germany lost World