{"quotes":[{"text":"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?","author":"Richard Courant","tags":["experience","math","mathematics","philosophy","question","scholars","science"],"id":1645,"author_id":"Richard+Courant"},{"text":"A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.","author":"Robin Sloan","tags":["five-hundred-years","penciling-it-in","scholars","secret"],"id":8172,"author_id":"Robin+Sloan"},{"text":"The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.","author":"Kambiz Shabankare","tags":["alienation","anti-elitism","anti-intellectualism","bogus","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","intellectual","intellectualism","irrationalism","knowledge","problem","propaganda","respect","rhetoric","scholar","scholars","society","undermined"],"id":9115,"author_id":"Kambiz+Shabankare"},{"text":"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["human-nature","humanity","saints","scholars"],"id":22170,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Ld heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;Wear out the carpet with their shoesEarning respect; have no strange friend;If they have sinned nobody knows.Lord, what would they sayShould their Catullus walk that way?","author":"W.B. Yeats","tags":["age","annotation","creative-process","criticism","critics","erudition","frustration","inferiority","love-poetry","perfection","poetry","scholars","writing"],"id":24388,"author_id":"W.B.+Yeats"},{"text":"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use  and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library  where he can get it if he wants it.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["scholars","scholarship"],"id":42595,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.","author":"Adam Gopnik","tags":["experience","historians","history","journalism","journalists","scholars"],"id":42924,"author_id":"Adam+Gopnik"},{"text":"The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.","author":"Kenneth Grahame","tags":["scholars","scholarship"],"id":60493,"author_id":"Kenneth+Grahame"},{"text":"The 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.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["academia","falsification","honesty","integrity","lies","scholars","science","treason","truth","values","veracity"],"id":71601,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"To 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).","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["academia","artists","falsification","gain","greed","honesty","honour","integrity","lies","money","morality","scholars","science","selling-out","treason","truth","values","veracity","writing"],"id":124772,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}