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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

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

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

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.