Serge Lang Quotes

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

The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

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.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.