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.

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

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

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