...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as…

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

— Vilfredo Pareto

“Disclaimer: While Pastafarianism is the only religion based on empirical evidence, it should also be noted that this is a faith-based book. Attentive readers…

— Bobby Henderson

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

— Carl Hart

“It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to…

— Immanuel Kant

“the great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make…

— Bertrand Russell

The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we…

— Luther Burbank

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will…

— Anonymous

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others…

— Jason Stanley

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you…

— Chauncey Wright

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration…

— Ashim Shanker

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but…

— Karl Popper

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster