Unbiased Analysis Quotes

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

History privileges no right side, and the arc [of history] can bend so that it loops back upon us.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

This system demands that the historian shall describe without indignation the most brutal atrocities, speak without love about the highest virtues and with his glacial eye see in social life only the manifestation of irresistible laws due to which every phenomenon occurs exactly as it inevitably had to occur

Politics can cloud objectivity.

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

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

The CIA should best serve the U.S. by being an unbiased reporter of the truth and if it were a fighting organization, that would affect its ability to analyze and report intelligence.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat. They do not try to persuade at any cost. They appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority ...

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'