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

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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.

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.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

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