Objectivity Quotes - Page 7

• Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.

  Michael Schudson

  Mean, Community, World

  Michael Schudson (1981). “Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers”, p.7, Basic Books

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• The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

  Herman Kahn

  Numbers, Weapons, Nuclear

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

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• My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

  Georges Rouault

  Moving, Christ, Paint

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• One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

  Carly Simon

  Stay Strong, Pain, Writing

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• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  David Myers

  Attitude, Reality, Views

  David G. Myers (1993). “Psicología social”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• We do not know. We can only guess.

  Karl Popper

  Subjectivity, Knows

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.278, Routledge

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• It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

  Michael Schudson

  Philosophy, Commitment, Thinking

  Michael Schudson (1981). “Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers”, p.8, Basic Books

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• 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.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Knowledge, Agreement, Paleontology

  "Evolution of living organisms: evidence for a new theory of transformation" by Pierre-Paul Grasse, Academic Press, (p. 7), 1977.

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• Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Feminist

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• An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

  Morarji Desai

  Views, Giving, Experts

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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• Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ideas, Self, Brain

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

  Grayson Perry

  Thinking, Class, Males

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• It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

  Amy Neftzger

  Needs, Want, Enough

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.139, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lonely, Attitude, Real

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fall, Mean, Blessing

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 153-154, 1949.

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• Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Subjectivity, Reactions, Modernism

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• Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 141), 1964.

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• Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

  David Limbaugh

  Past, Self, Media

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• Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.

  John Pilger

  Taken, Mean, Views

  Source: progressive.org

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• Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Real, Believe, Imagination

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• A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Art, Order

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Auras, Way, Journalism

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• One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

  Hal David

  Falling In Love, Degrees, Looks

  "Music Legend Hal David Passes, But His Lyrics Still Resonate" by Brian Levin, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.

  Eric McCormack

  Country, Eye, Thinking

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• Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

  Jose Padilha

  People, Principles, Different

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