A nation’s treasure: scholars. (Chinese) A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood. (Irish) A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. (Yiddish) Great scholars are not the shrewdest men. (French) It is a sacrilege for...

Scholarly method — or as it is more commonly called, scholarship — is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly...