Being true Quote by Vilfredo Pareto

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

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's…

— Geoffrey West

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

— Albert Einstein

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

— Kurt Gödel

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

— Deepak Chopra

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is…

— Paul Davies