Serge Lang Quotes

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

  Serge Lang

  Hygiene, Doe, Lasts

  Serge Lang (2012). “The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues”, p.19, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Goal, World

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

  Serge Lang

  Answers, Responsible

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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

  Differences, Facts, Opinion

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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• To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.

  Serge Lang

  Views, Media, People

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

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  Blood, Hiv, Aids

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

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  Political, Intellectual, Isms

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

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  Drug, Firsts, Scientist

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.623, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Serge Lang

  Negative, Hiv, Disease

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• 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

  Community, Congress, Standards

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

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

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  Drug Use, Hiv, Disease

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.622, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Doe, Needs

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

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  Community, Police, Attention

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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  People, Disease, Courses

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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

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  Viruses, Hiv, Screening

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

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  Views, Community, Serious

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.266, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Serge Lang

  Behavior, Settling, Approach

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media

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