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ADDRESS TO THE HOLY FATHER to listening to Your wise words that will certainly enlighten and orient the course of our Plenary. We are mindful of the many duties that your high office places upon you, not least the recent and demanding Synod of Bishops for the Middle East and your next trip to Santiago and Barcelona to inaugurate the Church of the Holy Family, and are especially grateful to you for granting us this audience today. It only remains for me to ask Your Holiness to bless this Academy and all those who will generously share their wisdom with us in the next few days. H.E. Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo gemeinsam führen. Und das richtungweisende Losungswort in diesem Kampf lautet von jeher und in alle Zukunft: Hin zu Gott!’ (Religion und Naturwissenschaft, in Vorträge und Erinnerungen, Stuttgart 1949, p. 333). 22 The Scientific Legacy of the 20 th Century
Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Participants in the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Clementine Hall • Thursday, 28 October 2010 Your Excellencies, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to greet all of you here present as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences gathers for its Plenary Session to reflect on ‘The Scientific Legacy of the Twentieth Century’. I greet in particular Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Academy. I also take this opportunity to recall with affection and gratitude Professor Nicola Cabibbo, your late president. With all of you, I prayerfully commend his noble soul to God the Father of mercies. The history of science in the twentieth century is one of undoubted achievement and major advances. Unfortunately, the popular image of twentieth-century science is sometimes characterized otherwise, in two extreme ways. On the one hand, science is posited by some as a panacea, proven by its notable achievements in the last century. Its innumerable advances were in fact so encompassing and so rapid that they seemed to confirm the point of view that science might answer all the questions of man’s existence, and even of his highest aspirations. On the other hand, there are those who fear science and who distance themselves from it, because of sobering developments such as the construction and terrifying use of nuclear weapons. Science, of course, is not defined by either of these extremes. Its task was and remains a patient yet passionate search for the truth about the cosmos, about nature and about the constitution of the human being. In this search, there have been many successes and failures, triumphs and setbacks. The developments of science have been both uplifting, as when the complexity of nature and its phenomena were discovered, exceeding our expectations, and humbling, as when some of the theories we thought might have explained those phenomena once and for all proved only partial. Nonetheless, even provisional results constitute a real contribution to unveiling the correspondence between the intellect and natural realities, on which later generations may build further. The progress made in scientific knowledge in the twentieth century, in all its various disciplines, has led to a greatly improved awareness of the place that man and this planet occupy in the universe. In all sciences, the The Scientific Legacy of the 20 th Century 23
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Page 9 and 10: Contents Prologue Werner Arber.....
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LUCIA MELLONI & WOLF SINGER pirical
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Great Discoveries Made by Radio Ast
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GOVIND SWARUP pioneering observatio
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GOVIND SWARUP 3.2. Quasars (QSO) 3C
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GOVIND SWARUP Figure 2. The sketch
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SESSION II: PHYSICS
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ANTONINO ZICHICHI national Conferen
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The Emergence of Order WALTER THIRR
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CHARLES H. TOWNES wanted to do phys
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CHARLES H. TOWNES oscillation was a
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CHARLES H. TOWNES Well, now we were
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JEAN-MICHEL MALDAMÉ which belong t
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JEAN-MICHEL MALDAMÉ There have bee
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The Evolutionary Lottery Christian
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THERAPEUTIC VACCINES AGAINST CANCER
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Recent activities of the Pontifical
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Study Week on Astrobiology: Summary
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