Empiricism Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one… — Jennifer Michael Hecht
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… — David Foster Wallace
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. — David Bentley Hart
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
Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its… — Claude Bernard
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational… — Hugh Laurie
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. — Bill Bailey
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that… — William James
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it… — Steve Martin

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