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120 Empirical quotes by 88 unique authors

The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method… — Sherwin B. Nuland
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or… — Michael Leunig
There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even… — S. Jay Olshansky
When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical. — Jon Carroll
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of… — John Fiske
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character… — Imre Lakatos
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in… — Talcott Parsons
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be… — Talcott Parsons
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in… — Talcott Parsons
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system. — Talcott Parsons
The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that… — Jeffrey Kluger
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism,… — Nancy Pearcey
What is genius but an artificial construct in the guise of an empirical truth — Unknown Author
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul de Man
Intuition is a combination of historical (empirical) data, deep and heightened observation, and an ability to cut through the thickness of surface reality. Intuition is… — Unknown Author
The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages. — Alfred Korzybski
We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles among empirical motives… — Kant
I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas originate… — John Von Neumann
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination.… — Melchor Lim

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