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Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.