Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

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.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

Idealism is the highest form of reason.