To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them… — William James Copy Share Image
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world… — Alan Watts 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
“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
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
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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
“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
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
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin 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
“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
“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
“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
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![“I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.” quote by Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/hugh-laurie-2413_admire_i-have-a-reverence-for-medicine-because_1101942.png)
