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

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

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.

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.

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

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