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Amartya Sen – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, More than two millennia ago, the poet Horace said, “It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” Well, I plead silliness in taking this to be the right moment. Here is my first silly thought. Disciplinary boundaries can generate giddy suspicions. Physicists…
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George E. Smith – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, First, Willard Boyle and I would like to sincerely thank the Nobel Committee and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for bestowing this great honor upon us. I am sure that Bill will agree with me that it comes as the supreme highpoint of…
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