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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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