Objectivity Quotes

“The mature person is one who is able to be objective about himself and his own behavior.”

“It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how dense and how widespread is the evil.”

“My job is to be a witness. I am not a missionary. I am not a politician. I am a witness.”

“I don't do heroes and I don't do victims. That reduces people to stock characters.”

“There is no such thing as a completely objective person, but people who are aware of their own subjectivity are less likely to be deluded.”

“We shall endeavor to record facts on every public and proper subject, stripped of prejudice and passion.”

“What is called 'objectivity,' scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation), is grounded in a primordial subjectivity.”

“I think the reporter's job is to be a witness to history. We're not there to moralize.”

“We are not concerned with what is right or wrong, or what is good or bad. We are concerned with what is.”

“The recording of a fact is a scientific and not a moral procedure.”

“Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover.”

“Being a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the story. I'm supposed to tell the story.”

“We must accept the facts, even if they seem inexplicable, and we must not construct a theory in advance of the facts.”

“The truth is, we all have biases. The question is whether we let them dictate our reporting.”

“That's the trap that they lay for you, is to get you so emotionally involved you forget that you're a reporter.”

“The truth has no agenda.”

“You can't get too close to people in power.”

“I think that the best biographies are written by people who are not sympathetic to their subjects.”

“The whole point of the scientific method is to keep our prejudices out of it.”

“Science should have neither desires nor prejudices. Truth is its only aim.”