Quotes About Empirical

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

Different 'philosophies' represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

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

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

One has to Journey within the boundaries of paradise fading into a world of unconsciousness only if you're thirsting to inherit this empirical knowledge not too greater and not too lesser, -MillYentei

The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical science could blossom; and even though the natural scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were believing Christians, the disappearance of faith in God left behind only a rationalized and mechanized world.[51]

It was in Rio that I realized the extent of the dilemma posed by the hallucinatory knowledge of indigenous people. On the one hand, its results are empirically confirmed and used by the pharmaceutical industry; on the other hand, its origin cannot be discussed scientifically because it contradicts the axioms of Western knowledge.