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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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