Quotes Tagged With :empirical

Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable....

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one....

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the....

Empirical proof doesn't drive progress. Progress is driven by curiosity, something we all have built....

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the....

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

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim....

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method....

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology....

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be....