Empiric Quotes

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? - Steven Pinker

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical. - Jon Carroll

What we saw Tuesday night is nothing to be proud of -- it was embarrassing. Nobody talked about the numbers... County council was being asked to vote on something they didn't understand the words about, let alone the empirical effects. - Robert Strauss

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. - Italo Calvino

What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on a net basis. - Cory Doctorow

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. - George Bernard Shaw

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

We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science. - Kenneth Burke

We have two approaches in our research - the empirical model and the mechanistic model. The empirical model generates life prediction from accelerated degradation test data, while the mechanistic model relates life prediction to changes in battery materials. Our approach provides an independent measure of battery life so we don't have to rely on what battery manufacturers tell us. - Dan Doughty

We find no empirical or conceptual reason whatsoever to think of intelligent design theory as genuine science. - Michael Ruse