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Quotes About Empirically

Everyone had things they found inexplicably attractive. Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word 'empirically' and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
empirically, complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In short, the welfare state vision is not simply a theory to be tested empirically but a cause to be promoted and defended, ostensibly for the benefit of the less fortunate. But
~ Thomas Sowell