William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995) American nuclear physicist
William A. Fowler's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/fowler-speech.html, December 10, 1983.
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
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