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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.