Empiric Quotes
- Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion.… — Robert A. Burton
- The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine… — John Dewey
- The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be… — Ezra Pound
- (The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) — Jane Jacobs
- Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. — Martin H Fischer