#scholars

"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)"

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."

"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."

"They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."