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

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

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

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

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.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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.