Empiricists Quotes & Sayings

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world. — Richard M. Weaver

Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you. — Zac Posen

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak

Results take time to measure. — Hyrum W. Smith

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts. — Robert Higgs

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that. — Persis Khambatta

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. — Will Self

More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists ... 'irregulars' ... of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. — Alexis Carrel

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl ... — Anne Frank

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring. — Diane Von Furstenberg

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. — Bill Watterson