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120 Empirical quotes by 88 unique authors

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. — Ann Landers
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism?… — Steven Morrissey
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself,… — Frank Ocean
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about… — Talcott Parsons
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. — Talcott Parsons
My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had… — Steven Pinker
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. — Steven Pinker
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? — Steven Pinker
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the… — Steven Pinker
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth. — Kurt GÃ¶del
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and… — Terry Pratchett
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. — Wendell Berry
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the… — Michael Shermer
The theory must not contradict empirical facts, — Albert Einstein
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or… — Steven Pinker
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it,… — Peter Kreeft
There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. — Ken Kaess
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant
Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has… — Huston Smith
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that… — Henry Rollins

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