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

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

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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.

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.

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

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.