Detached Quote by Kim Chernin

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach…

— Peter Agre

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery…

— Sarah Weinman

“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate,…

— Irving Howe

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for…

— Sue Grafton

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

— Beryl Markham

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

— Abraham Maslow

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of…

— Joseph Conrad

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of…

— Janet Malcolm

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among…

— Walter Savage Landor