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.

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

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.

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

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.