Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson 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
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It is madness that certain men have preoccupied their minds with measuring the world and have dared to publish their results.” — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” — Tom Heehler Copy Share Image
“Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist’s Two Jobs:” — Mark R. Leary Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and… — Ernst Cassirer 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
“Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls.… — Sol Luckman 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
“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and… — Ulrich Müller 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
“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
