objectivity quotes

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.