Quotes

From the October 1999 issue

"The Communists are not adversaries of the market. The Communists have broken with the statist vision of things."

—Robert Hue, national secretary of the French Communist Party, in the July 11 New York Times

"A depressing number [of scientists] are greedy, unethical, selfish, egocentric, intolerant, racist, narrow-minded--all the way to evil. Scientists cheat, plagiarize, work on poison gases or for tobacco companies, advise and support tyrants and dictators."

—Physicist Leon Lederman on science and responsibility in the July 24 New York Times