It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

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.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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

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

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