28 Empirical Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Terry Pratchett

God Think Difficulty Enough Keys Unlikely Evidence Rumour Finding Empirical Because Around Exist Going Found

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God. Paul Kalanithi

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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. Carl Hart

Other Evidence Objective Factors Longer Empirical Make Scientists Than Which Decisions Available Means Acting Less Based

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime. Chris Murphy

Crime Gun Evidence Anecdotal Guns More Leads Empirical Less Zero

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. Edmund Phelps

Economics Healthy Research Both Empirical Conceptual Got Theoretical Applied

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed. Eric Kandel

People Analyzed Collect Data More Individual Primarily Disappointed Empirical Concerned Scientific Becoming Been Trying Patients Psychoanalysis Who Large Groups Large Groups Early Career

The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there. Faith Salie

World Girl Rule Empirical Least Falsehood Offer Declare Aspiration

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. Frank Ocean

Life Music You People Problem Sometimes Focus Some People Life Is A Guess Everything Some About More Both Empirical Math Maths Itself Getting Vibe Just Want Story Turn Route Symmetry

There is clear empirical evidence that the response of EME financial markets to different shocks, including changes in U.S. interest rates, depends importantly on the state of economic fundamentals in the EMEs themselves. Jerome Powell

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske

Reality Matter Sense Constructed Empirical Any Conventions Which Realism Fidelity

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc. Lawrence M. Krauss

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Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers. Michael Gerber

Business Healthy Solutions Intuition Dash Data Observational Outward Combined Along Empirical Look Inward Provide Begin Owners Often Customers Business Owners

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be. Michael Leunig

Life Great Knowledge World Other Ease About He Empirical Feign His Wonder Child Any Wants Who Thing Need

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. Michael Shermer

Before Thinking Seeing Rational Empirical Just Being Skeptic Means Believing

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economics Empirical Look Healers Make Alternative Scientific

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake. Rick Perlstein

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I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. Robert Nozick

There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines. S. Jay Olshansky

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. Steven Pinker

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall. Terry Teachout

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