Quotes About Empirical

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

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and individual.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

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

It is curious how people's attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It is as if policy determined facts and not facts policy. If people are against big government they tend to deny that there is any such phenomenon; if they are for big government they tend to regard it as established fact and equate those who deny its existence with Holocaust deniers.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software under test.

All science is a search for the conditions that determine phenomena.

Because in the Renaissance, broadly integrative thought was at a premium; empirical method was in its infancy. Now, with the tools of measurement so highly refined, we produce lots of narrow specialists but fewer expansive thinkers." "Well,

Crank theories always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

The Upanishads trace these problems of the self to our sense of 'Iness' or ahamkara (literally 'I-maker') which is our subjective sense of identity and which has its origin in our consciousness (aham). In classical Sankhya philosophy, the empirical world of the senses and the mind emerges from the evolution of the aham, and liberation from this empirical existence requires the negation of ahamkara.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo. His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years.

This distinction has been described as differentiating task-oriented and process-oriented leadership attributes. The identification of these discrete components of leadership has been empirically documented in laboratory studies of group behavior by psychologists Robert F. Bales and Philip E. Slater.

Algunas teorías científicas dependen primordialmente de la inducción, es decir, de analizar un montón de hallazgos experimentales y luego encontrar teorías que expliquen las pautas empíricas.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

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

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.