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

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

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

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

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

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.

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