Atheism Quote by Karl Popper

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in…

— Francisco J. Ayala

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to…

— Talcott Parsons

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they…

— Michael Polanyi

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be…

— Saul Kripke

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

— Kurt Gödel

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If…

— Werner Heisenberg

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted,…

— Walter Lang

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

— Franz Cumont

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depictit as involving a search for truth only about the empiricalworld, about what is actual…

— Bas Van Fraassen

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is…

— Bas van Fraassen

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

— Edmund Husserl