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

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.

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

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.

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

Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.