Today, Academies Of Science Use Their Influence

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.

For Science Must Breathe The Oxygen Of Freedom.

I Knew, However, That It Would Cost Ten Times What I Had Available In Order To Build A Molecular Beam Machine. I Decided To Follow A Byway, Rather Than The Highway. It Is A Procedure I Have Subsequently Recommended To Beginning Scientists In This Country, Where Research Strategy Is Best Modelled On That Used By Wolfe At The Plains Of Abraham.

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.

[intellectual Courage Is] The Quality That Allows One To Believe In One's Judgement In The Face Of Disappointment And Widespread Skepticism. Intellectual Courage Is Even Rarer Than Physical Courage.