Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

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

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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

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

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.