You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity." in the context of "Louis Pasteur, speech at celebration honoring his seventieth birthday, the Sorbonne, Paris, France (December 27, 1892). Pasteur's son read the speech of thanks because of the weakness of his father's voice. René Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur, trans. Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, vol. 2 (1902), p. 297. On his 1956 Christmas card, Adlai E. Stevenson used a version of this passage which varies slightly from the arrangement and translation given above: "Not to destroy but to construct, / I hold the unconquerable belief / that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war / that nations will come together / not to destroy but to construct / and that the future belongs to those / who accomplish most for humanity"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.