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.

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.

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

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.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

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