Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

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.

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

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

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