A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

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

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.

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

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

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

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