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

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

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