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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.