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

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

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.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.