The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.