Hannah Arendt Quotes

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

I disagree with the University’s decision but we have to let them make it. If we have politicians telling universities who they should hire, we are going to a place we don’t want to be.

We should not silence our nation's researchers.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Academic freedom is simply a way of saying that we get the best results in education and research if we leave their management to people who know something about them.

Just as we have endeavored to maintain a separation between church and state, so too do I believe that we should try to maintain a comparable separation between basic biomedical research and politics.

Academic freedom carries with it the right to heresy as well as the right to restate and defend the traditional views.

No student who shall be expelled from a university by a decision of the university senate which was ratified or prompted by the agent of the government, or who shall have left the institution in order to escape expulsion, shall be received in any other university... .

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!