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<H2>Abdus Salam</H2><SPAN class=h3teaser>The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979</SPAN>
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<H2>Banquet Speech</H2>
<P class=smalltext>Abdus Salam's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10,
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<P>Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,<BR><BR>On behalf of my
colleagues, Professor Glashow and Weinberg, I thank the Nobel Foundation and the

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us, including the courtesy to me of being addressed in my language Urdu.</P>
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<P>Pakistan is deeply indebted to you for this.</P>
<P>The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West,

North and South have equally participated in it. In the Holy Book of Islam,
Allah says</P>
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<P>"Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return

thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy
gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary."</P>
<P>This in effect is, the faith of all physicists; the deeper we seek, the more
is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement for our gaze.</P>
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