Great saying by great authors Quote by Bas Van Fraassen

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is…

— Bas van Fraassen

“It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on a solid…

— Lev Shestov

“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking…

— Michael Crichton

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

“Scientific Approach 7 Systematic Empiricism 7 Public Verification 7 Solvable Problems 8 The Scientist’s Two Jobs:”

— Mark R. Leary

The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity…

— Karl Popper

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and…

— Brian Schmidt

“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be nowhere near…

— Abhijit Naskar

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

— Bill Watterson

“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism which bar…

— Karl Popper

“Scientific education is based in the main on statistical truths and abstract knowledge and therefore imparts an unrealistic, rational picture of the world, in…

— C.G. Jung

“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.”

— Ernst Cassirer