Nadodi

Words to live by, not just for scientists.

I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you are maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
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So I have just one wish for you—the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

— Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman

If a man
wishes to be sure
of the road he travels on,
he must close his eyes
and walk in the dark.

St. John of the Cross