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

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.