00:00:01 The performance of the play takes place in the National Theatre,

00:00:05 which is a very special part of the evening,

00:00:09 and something that fits wonderfully into our Nobel theme.

00:00:15 We've been celebrating a hundred years of Nobel Prize,

00:00:20 but some people think that a hundred years is far from short,

00:00:25 and I'd like to ask Roald Hoffmann to come and tell us about the play,

00:00:31 excerpts from each scene.

00:00:42 Ladies and gentlemen, in the spirit of our theatre,

00:00:46 I'm asking you to turn off your cell phones.

00:00:50 Contrerasi, who is known to many of you and who is the latest opera medallist,

00:01:03 and I have written a play called Oxygen.

00:01:09 It is about the discovery of oxygen, to be sure,

00:01:16 but also, as you will see in part, it is about the nature of discovery.

00:01:26 Does it matter that you tell people what you've discovered?

00:01:33 Does it matter that you understand what you've discovered?

00:01:40 Does it matter to those of you who are sailing for the Indies,

00:01:45 what you've discovered in America?

00:01:49 The play is not only about discovery,

00:01:54 but it is also about priority, competition, and about ethics,

00:02:00 and also about the role of women in science in the 18th century and now.

00:02:08 The play features scenes that are alternating between 2001 and 1777,

00:02:17 three years after the discovery of oxygen.

00:02:22 You will see a part of the play, about one quarter or so,

00:02:29 and what you will see are only the 1777 scenes,

00:02:36 but let me tell you what happens in 2001.

00:02:41 In 2001, on the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prizes,

00:02:50 the Nobel Foundation, having invested its money wisely,

00:02:56 thanks to my friend Steve Raubow and his successor, Michael Sowell,

00:03:03 decides to fund a new Nobel Prize.

00:03:08 It is the goal for discoveries made prior to the award of the current Nobel Prizes,

00:03:17 which began in 1901.

00:03:21 The prize, the new prize, the Foundation says in its press release,

00:03:29 is meant to celebrate science as it once was,

00:03:34 when it was done for knowledge's sake only,

00:03:39 unhampered by scrounging for faith,

00:03:43 pure, unsullied by unseemly competition.

00:03:48 Committees are one.

00:03:51 In chemistry, the Nobel Committee is chaired by a woman, Astrid Roosthuis,

00:03:57 who just happens to be a theoretical chemist.

00:04:01 Under her committee are three male Swedish chemists,

00:04:06 and also a mysterious young woman, Lola Zorn,

00:04:12 who is labeled an amanuensis, but who turns out to be much more.

00:04:18 The committee, which started in 2001, agrees on one thing,

00:04:24 and that is that the first retro-Nobel, as this prize is immediately dubbed,

00:04:31 that the first retro-Nobel be given for the discovery of oxygen,

00:04:36 which lies indeed at the heart of the chemical revolution.

00:04:41 And that's about all they agree on,

00:04:45 because the moment they begin to think about who to give the prize to,

00:04:50 one of them, in a fit of nationalism, suggests Carl Wittgenstein,

00:04:55 the apothecary who discovered oxygen.

00:05:00 A second chimes in, well, what about Joseph Priestley?

00:05:04 And a third says, how could you leave out that one more anthropocene

00:05:08 who really understood oxygen?

00:05:11 And they're off, arguing not only about the past,

00:05:16 as they play out their grudges and animosities,

00:05:22 suppressed for a while in the 2001 press,

00:05:26 but Sweden is a small country and things come out of one shoe,

00:05:30 and things go on between the members of this committee.

00:05:35 They must, however, in the end decide on an retro-Nobel prize.

00:05:42 Who will they pick?

00:05:46 They have to decide.

00:05:48 But meanwhile, while they are setting this up,

00:05:51 meanwhile, back in 1777...

00:06:43 What cool summers we have in Sweden.

00:06:49 The king, Gustavus III, has summoned us here to Stockholm.

00:06:55 And the king is afraid of France, for they say.

00:06:59 So we came.

00:07:01 Now, allow me to introduce myself.

00:07:04 I am a quantum non-Nobelist here at your service.

00:07:09 I am a representative of law.

00:07:12 In the office of a general attorney.

00:07:15 In the office of citizen of France.

00:07:18 I supervise the manufacture of gunpowder in France.

00:07:22 And I am also a natural philosopher.

00:07:26 And I represent Ireland.

00:07:32 Dr. Joseph Beasley of England has also been summoned here.

00:07:38 A priest.

00:07:40 Or as they say, a minister.

00:07:44 Of a discerning church.

00:07:47 He is older than I am.

00:07:50 We've gone throughout Europe for his plenary sermons.

00:07:55 All to be explained, I should add, with some ridiculous logistical theory.

00:08:03 And his wife, Mary.

00:08:10 One of us has no need for dialogue.

00:08:12 He is apothecary she.

00:08:15 He has the best hand in Sweden.

00:08:20 With him, there is a woman.

00:08:24 Ruth Hall.

00:08:26 She is the widow of a man in Swansea.

00:08:31 She is his housekeeper, they say.

00:08:41 My wife, Mary, can correct what her husband is doing.

00:08:46 And you cannot correct her, sir.

00:08:49 In fact, at this very moment, she is partaking with the women of the clergy called the sauna.

00:09:09 Oh, I couldn't breathe.

00:09:12 The heat.

00:09:13 Oh, I've never been beaten before.

00:09:16 Not like that.

00:09:19 In England, the coach is used for chastising.

00:09:22 Oh, it's just to bring a punch or something.

00:09:24 Much better than this.

00:09:26 I beg your pardon?

00:09:28 The immodesty of the sauna.

00:09:30 It's quiet speed.

00:09:31 Not better.

00:09:32 Oh, just a minute.

00:09:34 Now it's all dead in the air.

00:09:36 Oh, my goodness.

00:09:37 Here I am.

00:09:38 Nighty-night.

00:09:40 But I am so alive.

00:09:44 How could you?

00:09:45 You are alive.

00:09:46 Yes.

00:09:47 And you are the son of a daughter.

00:09:49 And you are?

00:09:50 Emma.

00:09:51 Oh.

00:09:52 I presume you have rejoined recently?

00:09:54 Yes, I have.

00:09:56 I have.

00:09:57 I meant to talk to her for a little while.

00:10:00 Especially for a lady who can't make it to school.

00:10:03 It's like, are you the man, Emma?

00:10:08 Flour yourself.

00:10:09 Sink.

00:10:10 Sugar.

00:10:11 Lead.

00:10:12 Butter.

00:10:13 Parsley.

00:10:14 What a beautiful world.

00:10:16 Converse?

00:10:18 I left with my mother's bags to serve at my father's horse-dance.

00:10:23 It's a tea that I escaped.

00:10:25 It is in your cup.

00:10:26 Much older than your cup.

00:10:29 I'm marrying Miss Woodward.

00:10:31 Funny, I didn't know that you were giving sedatives.

00:10:34 The afternoon tea is protein.

00:10:36 It's good.

00:10:37 When I arrived, I didn't need tea.

00:10:39 I was amazed at the clothes I had.

00:10:41 They're mine.

00:10:42 Correct.

00:10:43 They are not mine.

00:10:44 They were slashed and torn down.

00:10:46 I'm English.

00:10:47 Only divine.

00:10:48 Miss Woodward translated all of your husband's writings.

00:10:52 His true values are disposition to be made to master that spirit.

00:10:58 His awesome lectures on oratory increases his wisdom.

00:11:03 One of the only words that my husband has ever been to make is writing on a lotus flower.

00:11:10 The principles of fire and explanation from all chemistry is the explanation.

00:11:16 What do you mean?

00:11:17 We are not in the Middle East.

00:11:19 We?

00:11:20 My husband is not in the Middle East.

00:11:22 Nor am I in the Middle East.

00:11:24 And she is in the Middle East.

00:11:26 Is that not beautiful?

00:11:28 What for?

00:11:29 On the chemistry of air and fire.

00:11:32 My husband is not in the Middle East.

00:11:34 It's not about you.

00:11:35 Perhaps all of you are in the past.

00:11:37 This is your husband's latest work.

00:11:39 That part's pretty cheap.

00:11:40 It's not mine.

00:11:41 Oh.

00:11:42 I thought Paul was your father's name.

00:11:45 Yes, Paul was my father's name.

00:11:47 And the father of my son.

00:11:49 But he's dead.

00:11:50 Oh.

00:11:51 And these two?

00:11:52 She is perhaps his relative?

00:11:54 Yes, she is.

00:11:56 All in the past.

00:11:58 But I have a problem.

00:12:00 You do not understand.

00:12:02 Not in the last one.

00:12:04 How can I?

00:12:06 I'm not a positive person.

00:12:08 Related to his murder, related to my father.

00:12:11 I mean, 22 years ago.

00:12:13 When was his work done?

00:12:15 Well, some years earlier, I'm sure.

00:12:17 The book is helpful.

00:12:18 Oh, it's important.

00:12:19 No, 21.

00:12:20 Certainly.

00:12:21 The book is greatly important.

00:12:23 Perhaps it's relevant further.

00:12:25 And no one else.

00:12:27 But what of Paul?

00:12:29 Your husband?

00:12:31 Did he have children?

00:12:33 Three of your first children.

00:12:35 And as a parent, he strived to experiment with our hair.

00:12:39 Why?

00:12:40 There were no correspondence between them.

00:12:42 And my husband was humanified.

00:12:44 My husband never talked.

00:12:45 I don't understand.

00:12:46 What?

00:12:47 Ladies, ladies.

00:12:48 Perhaps we should have done with Paul.

00:12:51 You are right.

00:12:53 We have spent enough.

00:12:57 He wears a watch.

00:12:59 A shadow watch.

00:13:01 And is there a model?

00:13:02 A book.

00:13:03 For priesthood.

00:13:04 No, no, no.

00:13:05 Shield.

00:13:06 Shield?

00:13:07 Indeed.

00:13:08 He is a good dentist.

00:13:09 And careful.

00:13:10 I trust him.

00:13:12 I trust him.

00:13:13 And?

00:13:14 And?

00:13:15 And?

00:13:16 And?

00:13:17 And?

00:13:18 And?

00:13:19 And?

00:13:20 And?

00:13:21 And?

00:13:22 And?

00:13:23 And?

00:13:24 And?

00:13:25 And?

00:13:26 And?

00:13:27 He is done.

00:13:28 He repairs your head.

00:13:30 I'm not.

00:13:31 Why?

00:13:32 She gives quite a lot.

00:13:33 Oh.

00:13:34 How much.

00:13:35 Monster.

00:13:36 And?

00:13:37 She gives much less.

00:13:40 So just give to him.

00:13:43 Take these.

00:13:44 Of what?

00:13:45 An experiment.

00:13:46 By those children.

00:13:47 And make up a god.

00:13:49 By whom?

00:13:50 She-whoo.

00:13:51 What will it be?

00:13:52 Something from the past.

00:13:53 It is something new.

00:13:54 He questions.

00:13:55 I trust him.

00:13:56 How gracious of you to travel so far, Monsieur.

00:13:57 I have never been seen.

00:13:58 The invitation came from His Majesty.

00:13:59 But.

00:14:00 But, Monsieur.

00:14:01 His Majesty's curiosity on matters scientific is known to us all.

00:14:02 Indeed it is.

00:14:03 But does it encompass him at all?

00:14:04 It does.

00:14:05 It does.

00:14:06 It does.

00:14:07 It does.

00:14:08 It does.

00:14:09 It does.

00:14:10 It does.

00:14:11 It does.

00:14:12 It does.

00:14:13 It does.

00:14:14 It does.

00:14:15 It does.

00:14:16 It does.

00:14:17 It does.

00:14:18 It does.

00:14:19 It does.

00:14:20 It does.

00:14:21 It does.

00:14:22 It does.

00:14:23 It does.

00:14:24 It does.

00:14:25 It does.

00:14:26 It does.

00:14:27 It does.

00:15:58 It does.

00:15:59 It does.

00:16:00 It does.

00:16:01 It does.

00:16:59 It does.

00:17:00 It does.

00:17:02 It does.

00:17:03 It does.

00:17:05 It does.

00:17:08 It does.

00:17:10 It does.

00:17:12 It does.

00:17:14 It does.

00:17:16 It does.

00:17:18 It does.

00:17:20 It does.

00:17:22 It does.

00:17:24 It does.

00:17:26 It does.

00:17:28 It does.

00:17:31 It does.

00:17:32 It does.

00:17:34 It does.

00:17:36 It does.

00:17:38 It does.

00:17:44 It does.

00:17:47 It does.

00:17:49 It does.

00:17:51 It does.

00:17:53 It does.

00:17:55 It does.

00:17:57 A must of...

00:17:59 The dignity of Michael's heir.

00:18:02 ...of Phlogiston.

00:18:06 Ah, and the Michael's heir in chemistry.

00:18:09 The element that sets the atmosphere.

00:18:12 The Greek philosophers were unaware of how I act on water, earth, and air.

00:18:18 Without me, Phlogiston, the world would be quite unruly, rudimentary.

00:18:25 It is in my gift, the elements of the mind, transforming them to everything they are.

00:18:31 The vital cult in them, precious earth, endowed by me, can offer us their birth.

00:18:39 Oh, Monsieur, you are not literate and sure of what the world is made of.

00:18:46 Furthermore, you say to yourself,

00:18:50 let us show you how these elements react.

00:18:55 They shall attempt for a man.

00:18:56 First, take fire.

00:18:58 Everything that man produces needs to be in air.

00:19:02 Take charcoal.

00:19:04 Then, therefore, Phlogiston.

00:19:06 And when their blazing ceases, I will have your world.

00:19:12 You are not literate, sir.

00:19:14 No, Miss Attenborough.

00:19:16 Air can only hold up so much of me.

00:19:18 But there are other things I also cannot deal with.

00:19:21 With your men, of course.

00:19:23 Oh, my life, my dear.

00:19:25 Oh, my nerves are endless, sir.

00:19:28 Tell me more.

00:19:29 Tis art that wins the men from Timor.

00:19:33 My lord's affections were astounded to bring them as a child.

00:19:38 I am proud.

00:19:39 And from the cold, they bore us.

00:19:43 Just soft as me, how?

00:19:46 Oh, very good.

00:19:49 If you think much of that, your theories are obviously blind.

00:19:54 We now know, dear, that we are different now, sir.

00:19:58 In time of 19th, 19th, and 18th, I'm

00:20:02 quite well with all the elements of us.

00:20:06 This, I have no doubt in, must greatly demonstrate it.

00:20:12 At your commission, I will accommodate.

00:20:16 My young son soon will be short, but much

00:20:18 prepared for a violent heirloom, what they call oxytocin.

00:20:24 You know, sir, that what is sold is the key to triumph,

00:20:28 and thus, why not play the vital role?

00:20:32 Would it not be to play the role of the leader of Russia,

00:20:38 a violent and powerful step for a ruler in time?

00:20:43 And per se, would it not be to run on the floor?

00:20:46 The entire floor of the box is up to you to run on.

00:20:50 And as I told you, I explained it enough before.

00:20:53 It's your idea of what?

00:20:55 The shrewd rule.

00:20:57 The never-rosing weight of such a game.

00:21:01 Yes, you insist that nothing is made of it.

00:21:05 My dear, how just of you.

00:21:11 My pictures of life have been displayed.

00:21:13 This would be still be violent.

00:21:16 Oh, sir, I'm as curious as you are to believe the life

00:21:20 I've asked.

00:21:21 But it would not be as more so serious, negative as.

00:21:27 Never-rosing is about to go on.

00:21:29 It cannot live as oxytocin is born.

00:21:33 Over.

00:21:39 Yes, we know that material tools, air, water, water,

00:21:45 it makes no sense.

00:21:47 But I have not been found any more.

00:21:51 Some people make living source of future energy.

00:21:56 Their soul is burning.

00:21:58 For what we need, we are more.

00:22:01 Each element has its specific needs.

00:22:04 And man, for whom I am committed not to disobey,

00:22:10 he can receive wonderful things.

00:22:13 Man can neither help God nor gain anything.

00:22:17 But in this new chemistry, let us rejoice

00:22:21 and say from the top of his lonesome wild voice,

00:22:26 O Lord, and gather us in your soul,

00:22:30 in whose light we gather to finish off

00:22:33 the pain of our souls.

00:22:38 In this new chemistry, let us celebrate

00:22:41 how vital air has its fire.

00:22:44 In this new chemistry.

00:22:46 They were not of use.

00:22:48 Perhaps we went too far.

00:22:50 We planned to receive them.

00:22:52 They helped.

00:22:53 Who knows?

00:22:54 I worry.

00:22:56 Perhaps we went too far.

00:22:58 We planned to receive them.

00:23:00 They helped.

00:23:01 Who knows?

00:23:02 I worry.

00:23:26 Why this?

00:23:28 I must.

00:23:30 To show I was first.

00:23:32 Are you sure?

00:23:33 Yes, I trust him.

00:23:35 He planned for our wedding.

00:23:37 He did not publish.

00:23:39 He had to force it to be first.

00:23:41 Perhaps.

00:23:42 But that would make you second.

00:23:44 It would make Poitiers second.

00:23:46 It would make us third.

00:23:48 It would make us fourth.

00:23:50 It would make us fifth.

00:23:52 It would make us sixth.

00:23:54 It would make Poitiers third.

00:23:57 Is that the point?

00:23:59 That we were lost?

00:24:01 Indeed.

00:24:02 Why?

00:24:03 Have the world bowed to me

00:24:05 when I received it?

00:24:08 If you were king, you saw it.

00:24:09 Oh, God forbid.

00:24:10 Still, if you were,

00:24:12 who would you be?

00:24:14 I asked, who would the world choose?

00:24:17 You must show someone.

00:24:18 Answer me, as my husband, Amitabh,

00:24:21 never finished first.

00:24:23 You've always wanted that with my past.

00:24:25 Yes, but he deserves it.

00:24:27 Deserving something does not always lead

00:24:29 to getting it.

00:24:31 You're not in love with me.

00:24:33 I publish first, which makes me first

00:24:35 and the world ours.

00:24:37 I'm their heart, not their heart.

00:24:39 The world has no heart.

00:24:41 You do.

00:24:42 You are their heart.

00:24:45 You're a clever woman, Mary.

00:24:47 This is for loving my past.

00:24:49 Before we came to Stockholm,

00:24:51 I was convinced, in my heart,

00:24:53 in mind, that I was first.

00:24:55 But now...

00:24:58 I am astonished.

00:25:01 How will you convince him?

00:25:04 I have nothing.

00:25:05 He may say another sentence.

00:25:07 Very much so.

00:25:09 Thank God.

00:25:10 He will remember.

00:25:12 There is none in the world.

00:25:14 Yes.

00:25:15 Until she knows.

00:25:18 Who?

00:25:19 Are you sure?

00:25:20 I am sure.

00:25:22 Not as much as you may be sure.

00:25:24 Some billions of dollars.

00:25:27 Well, you have...

00:25:28 Not part of it.

00:25:30 Think of it.

00:25:31 If it would be right.

00:25:35 You are a good woman, Sarah.

00:25:37 Aren't you, Mary?

00:25:39 You have told me that something is wrong with you.

00:25:41 Yes, but do you believe me?

00:25:43 I do not believe you.

00:25:45 How do you not trust her?

00:25:47 But does he?

00:25:50 Do you believe them both?

00:25:52 His Majesty insisted.

00:25:54 Let me go and count.

00:25:56 I am going now.

00:25:57 Otherwise there were witnesses.

00:25:59 And the letter?

00:26:01 What letter?

00:26:02 She left it.

00:26:03 I saw it.

00:26:05 You saw it?

00:26:06 I was not sure it was you.

00:26:07 And why go it now?

00:26:09 I feel guilty.

00:26:10 And I must share your guilt.

00:26:12 You are my underling.

00:26:14 Where is the letter?

00:26:15 He left it.

00:26:17 You have heard this.

00:26:18 I did.

00:26:19 Well.

00:26:20 No.

00:26:21 You were so angry.

00:26:22 Why?

00:26:23 I don't wish to discuss it.

00:26:25 What do you mean?

00:26:26 Why?

00:26:27 I can tell no one.

00:26:28 But why?

00:26:30 What voice?

00:26:31 That is why I would have to condemn you.

00:26:33 I would deny it.

00:26:35 Is that so?

00:26:36 Or what I did?

00:26:38 You are still young.

00:26:39 Why me?

00:26:40 Subtlety comes only with maturity.

00:26:43 But you cannot teach me subtlety.

00:26:46 Subtlety cannot be taught.

00:26:48 Oh, explain it.

00:26:49 If I thought that he would choose a personal letter, not a professional article, to establish

00:26:54 my origins, I would have wished that letter away.

00:26:57 That is the point.

00:26:58 What is the point?

00:26:59 Wait.

00:27:00 But not wish to know how he disappeared.

00:27:04 That is something I cannot understand.

00:27:07 A stray thought becomes iniquity when spoken.

00:27:11 That is right.

00:27:13 Therefore I never liked it.

00:27:16 No, it never liked me, especially when dealing with kids.

00:27:20 I am confused.

00:27:22 I admitted it before meeting you.

00:27:25 Tainted by the knowledge of the kid, how can I prove my wife's actions?

00:27:30 Even when gone for long, I took it not for you.

00:27:35 Especially when gone for long.

00:27:37 Was it enough to deny your kid's death?

00:27:46 No.

00:27:52 No question.

00:27:53 Who made my efforts?

00:27:55 This was his magical command.

00:27:57 Yes, that is the real question.

00:27:59 Of course.

00:28:00 And you, monsieur, did not make that effort, as you yourself, in effect, conceded yesterday.

00:28:07 I understood it first.

00:28:09 I understand it only comes after existence.

00:28:12 The proof of such existence must be shared.

00:28:16 I accept.

00:28:17 Here is the letter, dispatched to you three years ago, describing what you have understood.

00:28:25 I never heard of that letter until today.

00:28:28 It describes the creation of man.

00:28:31 No such letter ever reached me.

00:28:33 There are less than three quid to steal today.

00:28:36 Of course.

00:28:37 And certainly not years ago, as you now say.

00:28:40 What is the real purpose of this meeting?

00:28:42 Priority.

00:28:43 In August, 1774, I made demonstrated air, your oxygen.

00:28:49 They resort to anhydrous air, sir.

00:28:53 The first steps of discovery are often tentative.

00:28:56 Some of us are more careful than others.

00:28:59 In October of that year, I met the leading chemist of France.

00:29:03 Indeed, a guy that might ask.

00:29:05 Including you, sir.

00:29:07 I told the guy.

00:29:08 You're in perfect French.

00:29:10 Mr. Lavoisier, compliment him fully.

00:29:13 Oh, my discovery.

00:29:14 Your report, that clarity.

00:29:16 Your message was imprecise.

00:29:18 Sir, your words are unworthy of compliment.

00:29:22 And yet, you, Dr. Leesley, supplied us with this modest of details.

00:29:27 I got details later to you, sir.

00:29:30 Only as they are relevant.

00:29:32 More than once, my experiments in pneumatic chemistry were cited by you.

00:29:37 Oh, and is there a reason to complain?

00:29:40 Only to be then diluted, if not evaporated.

00:29:44 How did I do so?

00:29:46 Are you right?

00:29:47 We did this.

00:29:48 And we did that.

00:29:50 Your royal wisdom makes my contributions disappear, poof, into thin air.

00:29:55 When I promise, I say I did.

00:29:58 I found.

00:29:59 I observed.

00:30:01 I do not hide behind a leak in our generalities.

00:30:05 Oh, let it be.

00:30:07 What now?

00:30:08 The question, sir.

00:30:10 The question.

00:30:11 Who made that air?

00:30:12 The scientists.

00:30:13 And this determination is inevitable.

00:30:16 But by the grace of God, I did it, too.

00:30:18 And published first.

00:30:24 They knew not what they kept on.

00:30:26 Or where oxygen would be lost.

00:30:30 Three sabbats, yet you cannot agree?

00:30:33 So be it.

00:30:35 The king will not reward you.

00:31:00 Thank you.

00:31:04 My husband.

00:31:05 You can recognize the elephant's hand.

00:31:08 And find my father.

00:31:10 You did not stop it out.

00:31:12 My dear wife.

00:31:14 In the solitude of a cell, think of our life together.

00:31:19 You were not born, let's say, in the absence of all the people in our house.

00:31:24 You were not born, I thought, about theology, about chemistry.

00:31:30 But you did create a good constitution.

00:31:32 You often found the clergy out of the stock.

00:31:35 Which could, wisdom, or brains.

00:31:40 I did put you back into power.

00:31:43 Whereby I am losing out on two people.

00:31:46 Perhaps.

00:31:47 Love.

00:31:48 A word I had not used before.

00:31:50 And then I never drew it.

00:31:52 To become my trusted partner.

00:31:55 And then I learned to be loved again.

00:31:57 I had no time for any pastimes.

00:31:59 Even for children, I started to learn the stories.

00:32:02 Silence.

00:32:03 Only silence.

00:32:04 We all need silence.

00:32:05 We all will stay in silence.

00:32:06 Silence.

00:32:07 Yes.

00:32:08 For you.

00:32:09 Silence.

00:32:10 For me.

00:32:11 There were a lot of men.

00:32:12 The word of our Lord.

00:32:13 One of us.

00:32:14 Oh.

00:32:15 One of us.

00:32:17 No.

00:32:18 I offered you all true partnership.

00:32:20 No other man could do the same.

00:32:22 You gave it all.

00:32:24 All your life.

00:32:25 Seventeen years.

00:32:27 In prison.

00:32:29 Now I understand.

00:32:31 What I have done.

00:32:33 What I have attempted.

00:32:35 To accomplish.

00:32:37 To accomplish.

00:32:39 Ambition without love is hopeless.

00:32:44 Never was enough.

00:32:56 Music.

00:32:59 Applause.

00:33:55 And Carl Gerasi for that extraordinary glimpse into issues of scientific creativity and discovery.

00:34:04 And it's a fitting reminder of the depth and breadth and extent of our chemical heritage.

00:34:13 And of the extraordinary individuals who have made it possible over the years.

00:34:19 And we thank you all very much for being with us today.

00:34:23 And we hope you have a safe journey to where you're going.

00:34:27 For those of you going to the Omni or to the Sheraton.

00:34:32 There are cultures outside the front door.

00:34:36 Thank you.

00:34:37 Good night.

00:34:38 Applause.