Idealism is the highest form of reason.

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

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

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.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.