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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant

Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. — Oliver Sacks

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy. — Richard Thaler

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster

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

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful. — Linda Ronstadt

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think. — Wendell Berry

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker

The highest truths cannot be forced into the type of empirical evidence that only applies to material reality. — Pope Benedict XVI

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. — Ken Kaess

Perl programming is an *empirical* science! — Larry Wall

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man. — African Spir

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. — Lawrence M. Krauss

It cannot be maintained that empirical science provides a complete explanation of life, the interplay of all creatures and the whole of reality. — Pope Francis

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand. — Richard R. Nelson

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. — Steven Pinker

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? — Steven Pinker

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature. — African Spir

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic. — David Stove

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I hope for my poetry to be empirical.
It shall suggest making love:
you will want the usual
in an unusual way. — Thabo Jijana

The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map ... — Alfred Korzybski

Spirituality is the empirical discovery of our divine nature by the shedding of who we thought we were - Renovatio Sutra #19 — Paul Miller

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

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers. — George Makari

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer

Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and — Edgar Allan Poe

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws. — Immanuel Kant

The Bible never encourages blind faith. God provides both rational and empirical proofs to confirm His word. — Domenic Marbaniang

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. — Dalai Lama

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. — Ann Landers

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

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science. — Shirley Maclaine

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. — Nils Heribert-Nilsson

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith — Firas Alkhateeb

In the long run, the map was a triumph of marketing as much as empirical science. It helped a good idea find a wide audience. — Steven Johnson

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. — Edmund Husserl

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. — Theodor Adorno

This is an empirical claim: Look closely enough at your own mind in the present moment, and you will discover that the self is an illusion. — Sam Harris

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul De Man

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. — Richard Lindzen

It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience. — Karl Popper

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth. — George Akerlof

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. — Edward Tufte

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is. — Paul Davies

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. — Edmund Phelps

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. — Albert Einstein

The Bible is the empirical evidence that proves God doesn't exist. — Joey Lawsin

The theory must not contradict empirical facts, — Albert Einstein

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for. — Edgar Friedenberg

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. — Talcott Parsons

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. — Albert Einstein