onsdag 15 juni 2016

Intellektuell hederlighet




”Scholarship implies an attitude towards truth and a method of working towards the establishment of truth.
The scholar has no axes to grind. He is not eager to prove his own hypotheses correct, but rather to find out if they are correct or not.

When he uncovers a fact which does not square with his hypothesis he neither shuts his eyes to it nor tries to explain it away nor trims it to fit his own preconceptions, but rather adjusts his hypothesis to fit the facts.”

(Giles Dawson 1952)

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