Quotes About Empirical

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

There had even been an informal group – the Séance & Science Brigade – dedicated to applying 'empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.' … It was the S&SB that had in effect named Area X, identifying that coast as 'of particular interest' and calling it 'Active Site X' – a name prominent on their science-inspired tarot cards.

the Séance & Science Brigade—dedicated to applying "empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Though no such study would or should receive approval from an ethical review board, Kristiansen, Haslip, and Kelly (1997) pointed out that there are no empirical studies demonstrating that it is possible to instill false memories of abuse." KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY

Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras's atheism held that society must "denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

The esprit de système favours closed, rigid systems, whereas the esprit systématique accepts the authority of empirical phenomena and comes to conclusions that are provisional and can be modified in the light of further findings.

This book, in other words, is another empirically grounded speculation, another conceptual itinerary.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

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

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

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