Top Empirical Quotes

Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life on other planets) or downright unreaso...

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often...

Empirical Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.

(a.) Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through ind...