Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional…

“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”

— Bertrand Russell

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could…

— Ray McGovern

The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law,…

— Ibn Warraq

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our…

— Adam Gopnik

“What are the attributes of leadership? The first, the primary, indeed the cardinal attribute of leadership is professional knowledge and professional competence. Now you…

— Sam Manekshaw

The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is…

— Hendrik Tennekes

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to…

— Abraham Kaplan

“they will have the right to expect from you the highest standards of character, professional competence and integrity.”

— John Adair

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation,…

— Linus Pauling

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

— Jack McDevitt

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer?…

— Yann Martel

The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing…

— Wendell Phillips

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden