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 Copy Share Image
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“empirical life is rooted in an a priori datum which does not come slowly into existence by mechanical development, but is a… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well.… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
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