The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in physical terms. All that the theory of the social sciences attempts is to provide a technique of reasoning which assists us in connecting individual facts, but which, like logic or mathematics, is not about the facts. It can, therefore, and this is the second point, never be verified or falsified by reference to facts.
— Friedrich A. HayekThe only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
— Dorothy L. SayersTo make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935).
— Dorothy L. SayersPraxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual circumstances of the concrete acts. Its cognition is purely formal and general without reference to the material content and the particular features of the actual case. It aims at knowledge valid for all instances in which the conditions exactly correspond to those implied in its assumptions and inferences. Its statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts.
— Ludwig von MisesTo make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or.
— Dorothy L. SayersYou'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him,' said Miss Hillyard. 'It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of.'But that,' said Peter, 'was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out.
— Dorothy L. SayersYou can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonDo we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?
— Richelle E. GoodrichThey may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonSee that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... Is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
— Dorothy L. Sayers