"Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism……" — David Bentley Hart

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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason,… — 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… — Michael Denton
• Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many… — Jennifer Michael Hecht
• The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems… — David Foster Wallace
• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead… — Benjamin Franklin
• In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on… — John Quiggin
• Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously… — Claude Bernard
• I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I… — Hugh Laurie
• Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less… — 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… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. — Bill Bailey

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