Objectivity Quotes

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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. — Dave Barry
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. — Alexander Alekhine
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a… — Fred Allen
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political… — Eric Alterman
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons
Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the… — J. William Fulbright
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. — Steve Wozniak
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is… — Jacques Monod
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes… — Karl Popper
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with… — Paulo Coelho
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity.… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not — Michael Pollan

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