Quotes About Integrity

I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.

People try to impress you with the things they have done ... You should be more impressed with things they would never do.

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

If you see a fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud.

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

A system with skin-in-the-game requirements holds together through the notion of a sacrifice in order to protect the collective or entities higher in the hierarchy that are required to survive.

Simply: if you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bullshit vendor.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

Love without sacrifice is like theft.

A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

But he left us with a good lesson: never trust the words of a man who is not free.

fragility and absence of skin in the game.

how people can cherry-pick ethical rules to fit their actions.

how they use public office as a means to satisfy personal greed.

people fit their beliefs to actions rather than fit their actions to their beliefs.

the researcher has the incentive to select the experiment that corresponds to what he was looking for, hiding the failed attempts.

Este mult mai dificil s? pierzi într-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu însuÈ›i.

First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

Actions are symmetric, do not allow cherry-picking, remove the free option.

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.

establishing the principle that you need to eat what you feed others.