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

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.