Charles Babbage Quotes

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

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.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

If then your father had no right to grant the privileges he pretended to grant, and published all over Europe as granted, those who came to settle in the province ... were deceived, cheated, and betrayed.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

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.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing whence it comes, what are its uses, and whither arises the obligation to submit to it, and the reverence with which it is encompassed. The rebels of our day are criticizing the very foundations of society which have hitherto been held sacred, and first and foremost amongst them that fetish, law.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.