Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. — Bill Bailey 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
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte 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
“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” — Tom Heehler 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
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
“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
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
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
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
“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
“According to Piaget, the central idea of empiricism is that “the function of cognitive mechanisms is to submit to reality, copying its… — Ulrich Müller 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
Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does… — Erwin Schrodinger 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
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
“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 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
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
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical access to reality. So completely does… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“…let us point out precisely the difficulties of empiricism as a theory of knowledge. First, it begins with two fixed, unchangeable ultimates--mind… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
“My argument against a naive form of empiricism was essentially anticipated by Mark Twain. On his first appointment as a reporter, he… — Karl R. Popper 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 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
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. — Steve Martin 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
“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
“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
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions,… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Beware the purists, the doctrinaires. It has been by the empirical method largely, by way of trial and error, that we have… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
