I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.

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

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.