Academic freedom Quote by Masao Maruyama

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of…

— Karl Marx

“For us, scientific literacy constitutes the knowledge you need to understand public issues. It is a mix of facts, vocabulary, concepts, history, and philosophy.…

— Robert M. Hazen

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.”

— J.C. Ryan

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan

“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

— Juan Cole