Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.” — Emmet Densmore 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
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
“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
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair… — William James Copy Share Image
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on… — Carl Jung 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 issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
“To the fundamentalist, their evidence in the form of religious doctrines and scriptures from various holy books must remain unchanged. This quashes… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.… — Frank R. Zindler Copy Share Image
“As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in… — Willard Van Orman Quine 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
“the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law Copy Share Image
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The human senses are known to be astoundingly unreliable instruments, easily deceived and fallible. Would you bet everything on shoddy detection equipment?… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
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![“My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/carl-jung-274_comparative-religion_my-interests-drew-me-in-different-direct_2874555.jpg)
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