Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
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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.
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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)
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See 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.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
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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.
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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
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