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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,… — Gottfried Leibniz
• In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what… — Stephen Jay Gould
• With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes.… — Edwin Powell Hubble
• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything… — Nikola Tesla
• But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical… — Marvin Minsky
• Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state… — Steven Weinberg
• In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to… — Karl Popper
• But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their… — Justus von Liebig
• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained… — Gregor Mendel
• True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont
• Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely… — Hannes Alfven

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