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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

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.

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.