I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist’s Two Jobs:” — Mark R. Leary Copy Share Image
“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” — Tom Heehler Copy Share Image
“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the world. Real religion has to do with reality… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world,… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law Copy Share Image
“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Beware the purists, the doctrinaires. It has been by the empirical method largely, by way of trial and error, that we have… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them… — William James Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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