Jordan Peterson Quotes

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

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

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

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 would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

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

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

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

Whenever one assumes the role of historian, friendship and enmities have to be forgotten. Often one has to bestow on adversaries the highest praise…. I hope to satisfy … by appealing to the evidence of actual events and of eyewitnesses.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

When you're getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you.

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.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.