Scientists must be free to attack the unknown as effectively as they can and in return for intellectual freedom they have an obligation, which rests heavily on those able to do so, to interpret research results in terms which can be understood by intelligent and interested people.

Modern philosophical educational systems, if they are to survive, must have as their central core the well-tested evidence compiled by objective scientific methods. Such knowledge must have stood the test of being checked and re-checked by men constitutionally agnostic in their mental attitudes; who can say, “I don't know. What is the evidence?”; who are constantly seeking critical new evidence concerning the validity of their ideas.

Warder Clyde Allee (1951) Cooperation Among Animals with Human Implications: A Revised and Amplified Edition of The Social Life of Animals

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