Best Empirical Sayings
120 Empirical quotes by 88 unique authors
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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.…
— A.J. Ayer
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
— Edmund Husserl
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What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that…
— Michael Harner
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The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned…
— Peter Joseph
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter…
— Edward Feser
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In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,…
— A.J. Ayer
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In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained…
— Huston Smith
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My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.…
— Jim Butcher
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The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,…
— John von Neumann
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I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and…
— Robert Nozick
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any…
— Merton Miller
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So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have…
— Peter L. Berger
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and…
— George C. Williams
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The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The…
— Che Guevara
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to…
— Will Self
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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that…
— Jose Padilha
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The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that…
— Kedar Joshi
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In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor…
— Michael Denton
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It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or…
— Albert Einstein
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