The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: science truth honesty lies integrity values scholars academia treason falsification veracity
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tag: science money truth honesty morality lies writing integrity values artists greed scholars academia honour treason gain selling-out falsification veracity
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: science truth honesty lies integrity values scholars academia treason oxford falsification veracity
If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.
Michel de MontaigneTag: truth men god faith cowardice veracity
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