The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

— Arthur Holly Compton, Banquet speech for his Nobel Prize (1927)

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/compton-speech.html

From his 1927 Nobel Prize banquet speech.

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