Quotes on Intellectual Honesty

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.