Experience the world, then theorize it.

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

— John Dewey

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is…

— Abhijit Naskar

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to…

— Ernst Cassirer

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

— David Bentley Hart

“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”

— Tom Heehler

“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to our own…

— Sol Luckman

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case against a…

— David Hume

“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with the mere…

— Immanuel Kant

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that…

— Edwin Land

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural…

— George Berkeley