Facts Quote by Melchor Lim

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

— Talcott Parsons

Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in…

— Ian Hacking

“The definition of a premise is something that is to be taken without the need for proof.”

— Katherine Woodward Thomas

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

“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and…

— Terry Nardin

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication....

— Morris K. Jessup

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on

— Anonymous

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

“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.”

— Steven Redhead