Data Quote by Werner Heisenberg

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but…

— Richard Hamming

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

— Kurt Gödel

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.…

— James Gleick

First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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

Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to…

— Claude Bernard

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper

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

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 physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material…

— Hilary Putnam