The Moral Vision
How Do You Win the Nobel Prize?
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HOW DO YOU WIN THE NOBEL
PRIZE?
Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam toured
several Indian cities in 1986, and in one of the
speeches he made (
The Times of India,
16 January,
1986), he cited South Korea as an example of
extraordinarily rapid national development. He
said that about 15 years ago, the gross national
product per capita there was equal to that of India,
but that thanks to the efforts the Koreans had made,
it was now many times more. Giving the example of
the team who had come from South Korea to
Trieste, in Italy, where he resides, to find out from
him how Nobel Prizes were won, he said that a
similar spirit needed to be inculcated in the people
of the Third World. He felt that it was this questing
spirit which was the basis for all progress, be it of
an individual or of a nation, and that this was true
of progress both in this world and in the world
hereafter.
All too often a process of stagnation sets in in the
affairs of a nation. It would appear that an impasse
had been reached. Instead of effort, there is inertia.
