Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value…

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the…

— Nikola Tesla

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If…

— Werner Heisenberg

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of…

— Alan Huffman

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical…

— Imre Lakatos

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

— Wendell Berry

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow…

— Rick Perlstein

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster,…

— Michael Leunig

“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and…

— Terry Nardin

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything…

— William Browne

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

“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