Serge Lang Quotes

#1. 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.

Serge Lang

#2. Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

Serge Lang

#3. What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say?

Roberto Bolano

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

Serge Lang

#5. She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

Homer

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

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

#10. 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.

Serge Lang

#11. If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.

Louise Erdrich

#12. Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

Jean Ingelow

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

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

#15. 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.

Serge Lang

#16. Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

#18. 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.

Serge Lang

#19. 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.

Serge Lang

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

Serge Lang

#21. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Aleksandar Hemon

#22. 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.

Serge Lang