Best Empirical Quotes

120 Empirical quotes by 88 unique authors

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble
It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience. — Karl Popper
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded. — Alfred Korzybski
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... — Alfred Korzybski
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe… — Max Weber
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted… — David Deutsch
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such… — Michael Polanyi
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which… — Hannah Arendt
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather… — John Quiggin
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much… — John Quiggin
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was… — Richard Posner
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as… — Immanuel Kant
Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and… — Immanuel Kant
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things,… — Adam Savage
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. — Talcott Parsons
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as… — Dalai Lama
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from… — Charles Krauthammer
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics,… — Hermann Weyl
In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory… — Fischer Black
In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female… — Theodore Beale
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least… — Holmes Rolston III
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is… — Edgar Friedenberg

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