"It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth."

Source: Vincenzo Nibali escapes public grilling on drugs in Tour de France by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2014.