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Good morning, young friends
of the twenty-first century.

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My debates with Bohr helped raise
the curtain on the quantum century.

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I once complained to him,
half in jest,

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that God should not play dice.

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Yet I hear that the universe revealed
by later, twenty-first-century experiments

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mostly does not take my side.

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This reminds us that nature often speaks
in a language we do not yet understand.

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What makes science
admirable and endearing

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is its willingness to let evidence
revise our preferences.

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The most incomprehensible thing about
the universe is that it can be understood at all.

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But understanding is never
the same as simplification:

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it is not the clamor of laying
everything out in the open,

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but clarity that can be tested
again and again.

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Nor does it mean flattening our humanity.

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Let facts and compassion coexist.

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Let wonder inspire your hypotheses;

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test your claims with precision;

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exercise power with empathy and restraint.

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If you do, uncertainty will be no threat,

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but a guiding light.

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May you debate with intelligence
and sincerity.