No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the… — Michael Jensen Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality.… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God… — Ray A Copy Share Image
My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
“We have no empirical evidence of something emerging without a cause from absolute nothing. The” — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“Pure anecdotal statements would not convince others about the actual societal problems and solutions without providing reliable empirical evidence.” — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. — Ken Kaess Copy Share Image
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory,… — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
“How do you know there’s some pocket of love at the center of the universe? How do you know we’re not just… — Sophie Oak Copy Share Image
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image