For many, Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine was as hard to accept as Copernicus’s claim that the Earth revolves around the sun, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during his speech at the Copernica World Congress in Toruń.
As the head of government said, in 2022 we had to give ourselves new answers to old questions.
A new world order like the Copernican Revolution
The pandemic, then the war in Ukraine and a powerful economic crisis shook the whole world. For many, Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine was as hard to accept as Copernicus’s claim that the Earth revolves around the sun.
said the prime minister.
The greenhouse conditions in which many Western politicians and elites had to live put people to sleep
– added.
The prime minister judged that “today’s world is full of paradoxes”.
The invention of the Internet should have united us in one global village, but it became the seed of many problems and the beginning of a new isolation
he pointed it out.
As he said, the era of artificial intelligence will soon arrive.
Personally, I am not afraid that robots with the face of Arnold Schwarzenegger will take over, but a teacher friend recently told me (…) that a student brought him a paper written by a program available on the Web. All students are probably already familiar with this program. This therefore creates enormous challenges for the entire educational process
Morawiecki said.
The indispensability of science
In a free world, science serves people to make their lives safer, better and more dignified. True knowledge arms great men with great humility
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this during the Copernican Congress.
At the Copernicus World Congress in Toruń, the Prime Minister stressed that the discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus have brought the realization that the world does not revolve around people. As he judged, the more we know, the more we realize how small we are in relation to the universe.
The history of human civilization is the history of trying to cope with the awareness of our imperfection. Religion, our traditions, family, friends, these have always been ways of dealing with a world full of dangers
noted the prime minister.
He pointed out that people could live like this before technology enabled them to take over the world.
But has not the past year proved that even the best technology will not protect us from viruses, will not protect us from the sick ambitions of tyrants, as we see today in the example of the barbaric invasion of Ukraine by Russia?
– He asked.
Morawiecki added that in a free world, science serves people to make their lives safer, better and more dignified.
True knowledge arms great men with great humility. I hope and believe that the advancement of knowledge in the 21st century will simultaneously help us develop and make us more humble before the world
he assessed.
He concluded his speech by emphasizing that only the combination of two characteristics – humility and the desire to seek the truth – will help to build a better world together.
Copernicus the patron saint of Polish science
Prime Minister Morawiecki recalled that the scientist from Toruń was also the discoverer of the phenomenon – described as Copernicus’ law, also known as the Copernicus-Gresham law – of replacing a better “currency” with a worse, less worthy.
Today, he judged, knowledge deepens, “knowledge serving for the search of truth, the search for new lands, as the poet used to say, is sometimes replaced by noise, the noise of various accretions and pseudo-knowledge appearing in our lives.”
And I think Nicolaus Copernicus, who really was one of the absolutely exceptional discoverers and scientists, can be said to be our patron today in sifting the wheat and in seeking that true, deep knowledge which should give us expanding the limits of truth to limits of knowledge, but also a better life, to build a better world, Morawiecki said.
And may this knowledge, embodied by this native of Toruń – as the mayor of Toruń says: Nicolaus Copernicus-Toruń – may he be the patron of great Polish knowledge, knowledge that has achieved such successes as celebrated 500 years ago thanks to Nicolaus Copernicus, a great Pole who made the Polish name famous all over the world, the Prime Minister noted.
He also thanked the convention organizers and “the great youth for trying to use the hardest and most sustainable currency we have, i.e. knowledge and belief that together knowledge and belief can create a better world.”
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Source: wPolityce