Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

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

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.

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

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.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.