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.

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.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

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

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.