Children or Prize Winners Before God
In July 2001, Ms. Bettina Stiekel compiled and presented the book "KINDER FRAGEN, NOBELPREISTRAGER ANTWORTEN."
The author once joined a meeting of Nobel Prize laureates held in Germany and got cooperation from twenty or so Nobel Prize winners for collecting Q &A's between the Nobelists and children into a single volume.
One of the questions from a child is "Why is one and one is equal to two?" As mathematics is not included in academic fields covered by the Nobel Prize, a Fields prize winner answered the question.
The mathematician said, "The equation '1 + 1 = 2' means that two is the next number to one; 'From one to two' is a basic of counting."
As I once wrote, "1 + 1 = 1," "1 + 1 = 0," and "1 + 1 = Impossible" as well as "1 + 1 = 1 + 1 for ever" are all possible, if the God has not given a conception of "2" in the Concept Universe which was created before the Logic Universe that preceded the Material Universe in which mankind was born though he or she is actually a mass of atoms physically.
Mankind including Nobel prize laureates should be as humble as a child before God; before materials, concepts and logic must be created for atoms to get together and function as a human being based on "1 + 1 = 2."
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US Nobel prize winner in economics in 2000 Mr. Daniel McFadden answered a question from a child as to why there are poor people and rich people in society.
In his answer, he said, "Market economy is probably the best system mankind has ever invented (no matter how many defects the system has); Japan and Germany have implemented various policies to make up for the defects of market economy, specifically preventing poor people from getting poorer."
Of course, the correct answer is that it is because the rich have not love enough to help the poor become as rich as the rich are.
You may also challenge Nobel prize laureates by buying the book at 700 yen (five dollars), though I am not sure if you can find it in a book shop in Los Angeles or New York, for example.
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The Nobel Prize cannot prevent war and terror from occurring, though I respect hard work and ability of Nobel Prize winners.
Indeed, we have to prevent war and terror from occurring by putting together wisdom and power of mankind, including all the Nobel Prize winners.
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By the way, please refer to a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/washington/16nsa.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin) which reports:
"Mr. Comey, the former No. 2 official in the Justice Department, said the crisis began when he refused to sign a presidential order reauthorizing the program, which allowed monitoring of international telephone calls and e-mail of people inside the United States who were suspected of having terrorist ties. He said he made his decision after the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, based on an extensive review, concluded that the program did not comply with the law. At the time, Mr. Comey was acting attorney general because Mr. Ashcroft had been hospitalized for emergency gall bladder surgery."
A humane US Attorney General was suffering in a hospital, his deputy was about to leave the Department, and specialists and engineers seem to have been happy being absorbed in their dream project the White House was desperately promoting.
But the real issue might be that present Nobel Prize winners seem to lack the ability to contribute to finding terrorists embedded in US society or potential terrorists growing with twisted mentality.
Can't anybody present an effective means or at least a theory based on advanced science to attain the goal of perfectly preventing terror while fully protecting civic rights of ordinary citizens?
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Mr. Shimon Peres, in his Q&A of the edifying book Fr. Stiekel wrote, said that we now live in the era where the media has the strongest power and influence in society and politics (which are supported by technology, science, economics, and textual information).
Yet, it is strange that if the most gifted people will not advance their career in this most challenging field of reporting, presenting, covering, analyzing, commenting, and interviewing critical matters and persons for benefits of all the citizens.
Nobel Prized professors should logically tell their best students to harbor a desire to work in a sector that has the strongest power and influence in society, which is not the governmental intelligence sector but the free and decent media.
(There is a media company where a faction of employees and management attack their rival in the company by spreading groundless dirty rumors. You must truly improve quality of workers and executives in this sector. Otherwise, a related society as well as such a company might have to still pay dearly for such a wrong doing.
If you are not in such a company, you may be blessed.)
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