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

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.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

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

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.

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

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.