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.

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 was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.