Basic Sciences more Important than Technical

I am happy to hear from my friend who studied in USA 25 years a go in tourism business, now joint international volunteer group for Palestine and other major natural disaster in the world, about studies in basic sciences. Through his experiences and communication with many professionals in the world, he said all developed countries are very concern on basic sciences because basic sciences research support applied sciences. No wonder, he said in developed countries their technologies in all aspects growing very fast including engineering, medicines and information technology. We producing many engineers, doctors and IT's graduates to use their products instead of developing ours or improving imported technologies.