Empiricism Quote by William James

“The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.”

— Herbert Feigl

“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no…

— Peter B. Medawar

“Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core…

— Daniel Abraham

“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”

— Criss Jami

“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy…

— Hugh Nibley

“I believe if each of us was to think hard enough we could recall at least one extraordinary tale, one we heard from a…

— J. W. Lord

“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the…

— Frank Schatzing

“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

“I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able…

— René Descartes

“What I meant was that if he could induce others to believe what he said, then for him the statement acquired some degree of…

— Patrick O'Brian