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

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.

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

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.

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Things don’t get better just because you want them to.