“The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.”

—  Aage Niels Bohr

Nobel Prize Banquet Speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1975/bohr-speech.html, December 10, 1975.

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