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

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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

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

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.