The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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.
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
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.
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
