It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.