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

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

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

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

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

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

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.