[mellow2020]

Nobody said you shouldn't try. But part of that is calling out those who talk of being "unbiased" or "objective" not as a shorthand, but as something they seen think is actually within their possession.

> It is not the greatest of modern scientists who feel most sure that the object, stripped of its qualitative properties and reduced to mere quantity, is wholly real. Little scientists, and little unscientific followers of science, may think so. The great minds know very well that the object, so treated, is an artificial abstraction, that something of its reality has been lost.

-- C.S. Lewis

> We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

-- Werner Heisenberg

[cringepirate]

> Nobody said you shouldn't try.

Actually a lot of people do say exactly that. I've heard it quite often both online and in my personal life.

[mellow2020]

Sure, but that has nothing to do with the comment it was in response to, which does in fact not say that.