甚至在石油收入可以支持相当数量的科研的国家，阿拉伯的统治者们也不鼓励这样的投资。 其结果使这些社会没有达到其本应达到的繁荣程度。
Even in countries where oil revenues could fuel a significant amount of research, Arab rulers did not encourage such investment, with the result that their societies have not prospered as much as they might have.