Affirmation Quote by Albert Einstein

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest…

— Ambrose Bierce

To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so…

— Chauncey Wright

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and…

— Jurgen Habermas

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and…

— Theodor Adorno

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I…

— Anthony Head

What we see is not always what exists.

— Paulo Coelho

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question…

— Leonard Peikoff

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

— Jerry A. Coyne