I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Prayer is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to release every pain

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything