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

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

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

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.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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.

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.