Objectivity Quotes

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations and experiments of their objectivity, makes them biased, and, moreover, creates false problems.

The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

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 decisions.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.