“Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.”
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
“There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that protects truth. You cannot serve them both.”
“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”
“It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.”
“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”