诺贝尔和平奖获得者Shirin Ebadi坚持和平的科学，他写道：“首先，知识使人们摆脱了无知，并使他们意识到自己的权利和义务。那些不知道，不知道该如何选择和不知道如何自决，并受到那些为她或为他选择他的人的摆布的人，受到政权的摆布：出于这个原因，科学研究的自由是思想自由的姐妹。”
(Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, adhering to Science for Peace, wrote: «First of all, knowledge frees people from ignorance and makes them aware of their rights and duties. Those who do not know, do not know how to choose and do not know how to self-determine and remain at the mercy of those who choose for her or for him, at the mercy of the regimes: for this reason, freedom of scientific research is the sister of freedom of thought.")