Objectivity Quotes

“Part of the bargain of being a scientist is that you're not supposed to have an emotional attachment to your theories.”

“I think people are hungry for analysis that isn't just partisan.”

“I've always believed that you should be objective, and that you should report what you see, and you shouldn't get involved.”

“I have no friends to reward, no enemies to punish.”

“I think the media has a responsibility to be fair, but that doesn't mean being neutral on facts.”

“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.”

“We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”

“There is no neutral, objective description; all descriptions are constructions.”

“Objectivity has been constructed in opposition to subjectivity, a dichotomy that feminists have rightly questioned.”

“They're just breasts.”

“A reserved and sober judgment is the very citadel of the scientific man.”

“The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

“The scientific man is not in the least wedded to his conclusions. He is leaning backwards, in the attitude of doubt.”

“Let us therefore be convinced that there is no unilateral history.”

“We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.”

“My purpose is to be an annalist, not a commentator.”

“The historian's task is not to be a judge, but to be an explainer.”

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

“He who is not bigoted to any system, will be careful to found his divisions upon some real and visible distinction.”

“Let the facts be your guide.”