Karman’s speech at the closing session of the Nobel Prize for Physics event- Germany
I salute all of you dear ones, to stand before this gathering of the highest minds that make the most important progress in science and life. It is a great honor for me and fills me with a sense of happiness.
I share with you this event which has become an annual activity that is the most important in the global scientific community.
This annual open communication in Lindau is a miniature picture of the radical changes brought about by modern physics in our concepts and perceptions of science, life and the universe.
Science has approached life and restored human and human mind due to the continuous scientific revolutions over the past 100 years in modern physics, and other sciences.
This openness and communication between the Nobel laureates and the young scientists and the diverse participants of youth and the participants with multiple interests makes this annual event in Lindau a leader in reflecting the status of science in today's world.
Bio-science, not the mechanical science that is isolated from life and human and that always belittles human and imprisons him in the perceptions of a static mechanism. These perceptions have always disruptive effect in multiple walks of life.
Today, the development of science put an end to all this and our perceptions and concepts of life began to change in parallel with scientific revolutions that presented new revolutionary visions.
The importance of modern physics has been the result of scientific revolutions and technological developments over the last 100 years, culminating at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the result of these scientific discoveries of great technological developments that changed our lives and reality.
Today, the boundaries gradually shift between modern physics and the rest of science. The boundary between science and life, between natural sciences and other sciences in the fields of knowledge and philosophy melts.
Today, human regains his status with every step promoted by science in its creative renewal.
Just as the endless nature of science is confirmed, and that it is open to a renewable space of possibilities and discoveries that are capable to radically change our perceptions, it also confirms the vital and non-fixed character of everything. Change is the law of life. Just as knowledge is based on assumptions in minds of frequent generations of scientists, the human mind, its perceptions and reality, is also changing, open and developed.
We are "all one". There is no separation between our feelings, our brains and our bodies. There is no separation between science and human. This mutual and interdependent influence should be inspiring for us to have a fruitful communication that enriches our vision and enhances our relationships and dialogues in such events that bring us together today.
We all belong to today's world. The world where there is no place for isolation and inertia, in science and in life.
Your dazzling scientific discoveries affect everything around you in today's world, from life and reality, to philosophy, thought, and social and psychological sciences.
The nature of science you are leading today places questions far beyond the "machine question" and transcends the potential technical achievements of every scientific development.
The great philosophical questions about the universe, life and human have now become synonymous with the development of the science of nature.
It is before you today, linked to your research and the philosophy of science overlapping with the development of science and researches.
In our countries there are new ignorant who offer a model of brutality, injustice and the exploitation of life. Regimes similar to those in the Middle ages and pre-state and law. They kill tens of thousands of their own citizens to terrorize their communities and judge them with tyranny and annihilation. They spread terror and fear and besiege millions of people in order to humiliate and subjugate them.
They faced the revolutions of our Arab Spring with annihilation. The rich Saudi Arabia and its ally, the UAE, have carried out an evil plot of counter-revolution in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Egypt and finally in Sudan. They supported the coups and sectarian militias and extremist groups to turn the promised hopes of revolutions into bloody hell.
I had to assure you of this brief reference to what is happening to us in today's world. And to ensure our continuity in the struggle for freedom, rights, dignity, justice and equality, for a life in which the human moves forward, not to go back to the times of injustice, tyranny, dictatorship and annihilation.
I greet you from my heart.
I salute this city, which has presented itself, and continues to be, an incubator of a distinguished annual global event that has its history and important implications in the global scientific community.