"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."

"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."

"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."

"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."

"A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens."

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

"The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line."