Good morning, young friends of the twenty-first century. My debates with Bohr helped raise the curtain on the quantum century. I once complained to him, half in jest, that God should not play dice. Yet I hear that the universe revealed by later, twenty-first-century experiments mostly does not take my side.

This reminds us that nature often speaks in a language we do not yet understand. What makes science admirable and endearing is its willingness to let evidence revise our preferences. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it can be understood at all. But understanding is never the same as simplification: it is not the clamor of laying everything out in the open, but clarity that can be tested again and again. Nor does it mean flattening our humanity. Let facts and compassion coexist.

Let wonder inspire your hypotheses; test your claims with precision; exercise power with empathy and restraint. If you do, uncertainty will be no threat, but a guiding light. May you debate with intelligence and sincerity.