Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

To the confusion of our enemies.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.