Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

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

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.