Empirical Quotes

120 quotes by 90 authors

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who… — Gottfried Leibniz
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in… — Marvin Minsky
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results… — Karl Popper
But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes… — Justus von Liebig
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. — Nils Heribert-Nilsson
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing… — Albert Einstein
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task of… — Karl Popper
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. — Albert Einstein

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