Approach Quote by Andrei Sakharov

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

— Virginia Woolf

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and…

— Andrei Sakharov

Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and…

— Robert H. Jackson

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

— Baruch Spinoza

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

— Isaiah Berlin

“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and…

— C. Vann Woodward

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to…

— Masao Maruyama

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important…

— Donald Kennedy

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the…

— Karl Marx