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.

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

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

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

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.