Best Empirical Quotes
120 Empirical quotes by 88 unique authors
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Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.
— Karl Popper
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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
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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
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.
— Alfred Korzybski
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
— Talcott Parsons
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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