Data Quote by Michael Polanyi

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but…

— Karl Popper

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally…

— Gregory Bateson

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not…

— Karl Popper

The only rule of science is that it has no rule.

— Vikrant Parsai

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

— Immanuel Kant

“Science is a human construct. Scientific laws are as valid as our understanding at any particular moment. Scientific laws are not absolute. Scientific laws…

— Dejan Stojanovic

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

— John Dewey

It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.

— Karl Popper

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone…

— Thomas S. Kuhn