Science is alone and the routes to its achievement are alone. They are independent from the ideas of man, from his aspirations and wishes, from the social tenor of his life, from his philosophical, social, and religious theories. They are independent from his will and from his world outlook — they are primordial.
In: Loren R. Graham, The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932, Chapter III (p. 80)