Fundamental Science has provided us with an increasingly detailed and accurate understanding of Nature and the world around us. Progress in Science is based on the pre-conditions that:
①Everything, including existing knowledge, is open to critical, unprejudiced inquiry. Science is often built on the destruction of existing patterns and is a continuously evolving process.
②Our minds, reason, and our powers of observation are the tools we use to advance knowledge. There are no mysteries that will resist scientific investigation.
③Science is the property of mankind and not of any one nation or people and is our most precious human asset.