Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.

Science and spirituality are both the search for truth.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

He calls it the university of the Real One, and it teaches only things that are known to be true, which means it is largely devoted to mathematics and sciences.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.

One of the purposes of a university is to find the truth, but that can’t be done if free discussion is banned.

College campuses in our country must remain places where students can learn, share and grow together, not spaces where proxy battles and political grandstanding take root. Universities must remain independent venues where courage and reason unite to advance truth, no matter what forces set against them.

The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.

Form and size constitute the foundation of all search for truth.

[T]he university, which was established as a refuge whose purpose was to pursue truth without regard for the opinions of the world, has become a power center whose purpose is to impose its own opinions on the world.