Claim Quote by Talcott Parsons

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

— Franz Cumont

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

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

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

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

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing…

— John Ruskin

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

— Leonardo da Vinci

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

— Jose Padilha