Quotes About Experience

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

The greater the pain, the greater the fun.

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

Life without death simply isn't life, but death