Isaac Newton

consider it my obligation to use Sinhala, a living language, to address the General Assembly. Let me begin by quoting the immortal words of Sir Isaac Newton: “We build too many walls and not enough bridges”. We all became Members of an Organization that was created to let all our voices be heard and to av

leo was a boy when Montaigne was writing — the scepticism that Montaigne advanced against religious violence in 1580 is the same as that which Boyle, Newton, or Lavoisier would apply to the universal truths of natural theology in order to create a way of understanding that we now recognize as scientific.

eshold of a new age. This is an overused phrase, but we are all aware that an exciting new universe is within our reach. Several centuries ago, Isaac Newton described his scientific discoveries as pebbles on the beach, while the ocean of truth lay undiscovered.

given State has come to the end of its usefulness, just as in the past the theory of the sun rotating around the Earth was shown to be inadequate by Newtonian physics. This is clearly demonstrated by numerous threats to the existence of mankind, ranging from the nuclear threat to the ecological menace an