True to the Truth, Reasonable as Reason Permits

To the extent that it has turned its back on the pursuit of Truth (yes, capital T), science and scholarship has declared itself as sophistry and idle verbosity. To profess a willingness to search for Truth is not intellectual pomposity, but simply an expression of a belief that thinking beings can advance beyond the condition of pure ignorance, and that science and scholarship are not just weasel words for the ramblings of the particularly loquacious ignoramuses.