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A Welcome to Bavaria
A Festival of Science and Hope
Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts Markus Blume did not conceal his
delight about the Meeting's focus on physics and in particular on quantum computing.
He went on to discuss the role of science in shaping society and concluded by
inviting all participants to Bavaria’s state reception.
I can feel what is called the Lindau Spirit, what makes this
event really special. We heard many things about the ingredients here of this Lindau Spirit.
You’re not here for the wonderful weather, and you’re
not here for the beautiful landscape, and the Bavarian
art of living. You’re here because you can have a unique
experience of meeting the brightest minds in the world.
Thank you all for coming to Lindau, Ladies and Gentlemen.
So this is a festival of great ideas, and we touched a little
bit today on the history of this meeting. But it’s also a
festival that focusses on one discipline every year. This
sounds for some pupils or students like a horror week.
But I understand here in Lindau, a week of physics is pure
pleasure.
As Minister of Science and the Arts, I’m very excited
about the new possibilities, about the new technological
developments, about the future of quantum computing,
of fusion. So, thank you for making this the topic of this
year’s conference. And thank you especially, a warm
thank you to the Nobel Laureates here for sharing your ex-
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perience, your knowledge, your ideas with all of us. Thank
you so much for this effort.
Finally, Lindau always is a festival of science and hope,
because we are strong believers all together in the power
of progress, in the power of new answers. And I strongly
believe we need these new answers, because no doubt
we live in a time of a paradigm shift, or maybe not even
just one paradigm shift, but two or three or even more.
So it’s clear that we can only deal with all the new challenges with new answers and not just with a look back
into the past.
This is the reason why we need you to manage the
future, to shape the future basically. But there’s even
more behind this, because today, given the fact that in a
neighbouring country in France we have elections today,
I think, or I feel we may not allow for a world where people
listen to the wrong people and follow the wrong ideas.
They should listen to science, and they should follow
your ideas.
