Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

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

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

REMEMBERwhenever wherever you are.you're representing someone or something

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance