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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The greatest grace shall be harmony in human relations.

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.