Quotes About Bias

prejudice doesn't go away just because a law changes.

Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.

These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them.

Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.