Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James Copy Share Image
The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply… — William James Copy Share Image
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world,… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the world. Real religion has to do with reality… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Without the human my friend, truth has no value whatsoever. So, do not be blinded by the false glory of truth, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Being articulate is not the same as being wise. Truth devoid of conscience, is worthless in human existence.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
