22 Quotes by Serge Lang

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.

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

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.