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

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

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

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

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.