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

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

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

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

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.

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

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.