The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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.

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

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.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.