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1 EMBARGOED UNTIL AFTER DELIVERY PLEASE CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY BANQUET SPEECH BY MR LIM CHUAN POH, CHAIRMAN, AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, AT THE CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF MURRAY GELL-MANN S 80 TH 25 FEB REGENT HOTEL Imagination and Santa Fe Professor Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Laureates Distinguished guests Ladies and Gentlemen A very good evening to all of you. Welcome Let me first extend a very warm welcome to Professor Gell-Mann and all our foreign visitors to Singapore. It is certainly a pleasure and a privilege for me to be here this evening to celebrate this very special occasion with all of you. It is not often that one gets to have dinner with four Nobel laureates, especially four who have contributed enormously in the field of fundamental science. 1

2 The Genius that is Professor Gell-Mann Professor Gell-Mann's contribution to physics has been nothing short of seminal. From formulating a Nobel-prize-winning understanding of particles, to creating a new algebra, to developing the theory of quantum chromodynamics, Professor Gell-Mann's work has been instrumental in helping humanity deepen our understanding of the laws of Nature. On top of that his wide ranging interests, from language, to archaeology, to biological and cultural conservation, led him to set up the Sante Fe Institute, a cutting edge institute that recognises the need for interdisciplinary research to solve society's pressing problems. This polymath is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, sits on the board of the Wildlife Conservation committee, and is naturally well-equipped to be a director of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. We're all here to celebrate the 80th birthday of a man whose ideas have revolutionised the way we think about science and the world, ideas that were (and still are) so strange that they deserve equally strange names. And to Professor Gell-Mann, I hope you get your wish to see a Congo Peacock soon. Imagination: Making connections But, perhaps a better word than "strange" suggests itself when I think about what Professor Gell-Mann has done and the quality he possesses that is so essential to teasing out nature's secrets. 2

3 I believe it was his imagination that led him to the quark and it was imagination again that made him call a quark, a quark. Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, Arthur Sze, writes in his poem, "The Leaves of a Dream are the Leaves of an Onion" and I quote: A Galapagos turtle has nothing to do with the world of the neutrino. The ecology of the Galapagos Islands has nothing to do with a pair of scissors. The cactus by the window has nothing to do with the invention of the wheel. The invention of the telescope has nothing to do with a red jaguar. No. The invention of the scissors has everything to do with the invention of the telescope. A map of the world has everything to do with the cactus by the window. The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night. The man who sacrifices himself and throws a Molotov cocktail at a tank has everything to do with a sunflower that bends to the light. 3

4 Arthur Sze, by fusing seemingly dissimilar images together, describes precisely the kind of imagination that is Professor Gell-Mann. This imagination is the power of the intellect to connect seemingly disparate things together, to tease out patterns from even the most stubborn disorder. Imagination powered the discovery of the eightfold way and showed itself again in Professor Gell-Mann's playful christening of his theory. It is imagination that sees things that others don't dare to see, and imagination that leaves one not as the crank, but the prophet. Imagination naturally is a very important quality for scientists and imagination is a particularly important issue for Singapore at this stage of our scientific development. Brief Description of the Growth of R&D in Singapore Recently, as part of the budget statement of the Finance Minister, the Singapore government has accepted the recommendations of the Economic Strategies Committee for Singapore to aspire to be Asia s Innovation Capital and for our Gross Expenditure on Research and Development or GERD to reach 3.5% of GDP by This will put Singapore in the top 10 countries in the world with GERD spending of above 3%. Indeed, when we looked back at the last decade, the growth of R&D in Singapore is nothing short of spectacular. 4

5 During this period, we have established a strong base of a spectrum of research capabilities through our significant R&D investments. A*STAR has both Biopolis and Fusionopolis with over 2,000 researchers, 50% of whom come from over 60 different countries; our autonomous universities, NTU and NUS have become a lot more research intensive and have developed peaks of excellence in their Research Centres of Excellence and NTU should be proud to have 2 such outstanding Centres; we have an innovative new university, the Singapore University for Technology and Design, that will add to the diversity of the university landscape in Singapore and it has an interesting partnership with MIT and Zhejiang University; we also have the presence of world class universities with research presence in a new campus with more to join them in due course; and we have a rapidly growing business R&D sector and yesterday, HP opened a HP Lab in Fusionopolis, 1 of only 3 in Asia. We are therefore well positioned to continue building on these R&D capabilities to go further and transform Singapore into an innovation society. Role of Universities As we transformed our research landscape, we have also taken significant steps to bring about meaningful and impactful changes in our schools. There are now greater flexibility, diversity and choices in the educational pathways available to our students. 5

6 There is also greater customization in recognition of the different and irregular strengths of individual students to allow each student to go as far as he or she can and realize his or her full potential. There is also much stronger focus on Innovation and Enterprise in our schools. The changes are palpable but as in all things related to education, more can be done. For Singapore, our advantage is in our ability to take the long term view and be committed to plan and act long term. This is why we are able to achieve what we have in a relatively short period of time and I don t think I want to dwell on our strengths or advantages here. Our challenge is in our ability to open up the minds of our young, to give them the space to develop their own critical thinking skills, to let them experiment and make mistakes, and very importantly, to let their imagination soar. Universities obviously have a big part to play and particularly well suited for the task. I am therefore very happy to see the efforts by Prof Su Guaning, Prof Puah and NTU to provide such opportunities for your students to interact with Nobel Laureates and eminent scientists. These moments for your students may well be the sparks to launch them into many different life changing trajectories. 6

7 Hopefully, some of them will pursue scientific research as a career and make discoveries that will have a significant impact on the scientific world and on humanity. Conclusion In this regard, let me expressed my deep felt appreciation to the Nobel Laureates and the many eminent scientists for your presence and the time and efforts that you put in to talk to our students. I hope you also get to enjoy some of our hospitality when you are here. Let me now return to the main reason why we are gathered here tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, may I invite you to rise and join me in proposing a toast to Professor Gell-Mann. Let us all wish him Good Health and more Great Discoveries. Thank you very much. 7

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