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Empirical Quotes by Talcott Parsons
- Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about…
- Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
More Empirical Quotes
- Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those… — Gottfried Leibniz
- In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould
- With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla
- But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky
- Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It… — Steven Weinberg
- In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that… — Karl Popper
- But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by… — Justus von Liebig
- My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of… — Gregor Mendel
- True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont
- Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven