Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.