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

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

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.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.