Excellent and relevant quote from Confucius in a comment on a nature news article:

http://www.nature.com/news/online-debate-erupts-to-ask-is-science-broken-1.17156#comment-1931195578

(That link is now gone, but here's the comment):


Ilya Grushevskiy

2015-03-27 01:37 PM

Confucius: The Master said, "If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good." Scientists, of all people, should be rational enough to see this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150812225048/http://www.nature.com/news/online-debate-erupts-to-ask-is-science-broken-1.17156

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