Jacques Derrida Quotes

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

There is no human objectivity.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Observations always involve theory.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

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

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'