Contemporary Quote by Saul Kripke

The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of…

— Hilary Kornblith

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

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

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

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

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

“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation…

— Ernst Cassirer

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

— Edmund Husserl

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

— Franz Cumont

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