To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to…

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard…

— Gabrielle Reece

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being,…

— Dalai Lama

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate…

— Noam Chomsky

The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of…

— Max Horkheimer

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free…

— Robert Todd Carroll

Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the…

— Noam Chomsky

Across a wide body of academic and empirical evidence, there is no evidence of a significant impact of capital gains rates on the level…

— Brian Deese

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer…

— Carl Hart

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

— Rebecca Goldstein

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so…

— John Quiggin

My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about…

— Jim Butcher

In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or…

— Bertrand Russell

Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire…

— Michael Harner

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

— Alexander Cockburn