By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in
their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make
wild claims, they do not cheat,they do not try to persuade at
any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority,
they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are
fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with
race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young
and to the old who both know everything. These are the
general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the
virtues of science.
-- Jacob Bronowski
