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Quotes About Integrity

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
~ Linus Pauling
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
~ Daniel Wallace
There is no [...] higher than the truth.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
~ A. P. Herbert
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
~ Thomas L. Friedman
Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
~ David O. McKay
However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.
~ Phil Plait
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
~ John Charles Polanyi
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
~ Harmony Korine
Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves
~ Richard P. Feynman
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
~ Michael Crichton, Next
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
~ Albert Einstein
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.
~ Linus Torvalds
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
~ Charles Kingsley
You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?
~ David Letterman
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.
~ Richard Branson
Ethics and Science need to shake hands.
~ Richard Clarke Cabot
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.
~ Thomas Huxley
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom
~ Kenneth R. Miller
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
~ Thomas Jefferson