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

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

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.

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.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

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.

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