“This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.”
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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.