#objectivity

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#dog #fact #himself #humble #interest

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#goal #however #i #i think #objectivity

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#different people #different things #i #means #never

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. ↗

— Nate Silver

#call #commitment #having #journalism #lot

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#did #enable #maintain #me #objectivity

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#biography #impossible #matter #objectivity #perfect

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ↗

— Donna Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand. ↗

— Bones The Doctor in the Photo

#objectivity #philosophy #science #universe #science

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

#media #objectivity #sociology #sociology