Objectivity Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“They're just breasts.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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