Imre Lakatos quote: "Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."

The species concept debate has devolved from an empirical discussion into a philosophical one. But t...
LOREN RIESEBERG

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirica...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathema...
WERNER HEISENBERG

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problem...
TALCOTT PARSONS

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it shoul...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

Empirical proof doesn't drive progress. Progress is driven by curiosity, something we all have built...
ATHAN FLETCHER

It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical phys...
BEN AARONOVITCH

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking ...
JOSE PADILHA

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction...
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deductio...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules abo...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT

will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be onl...
MANFRED KUEHN

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and frui...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral p...
STEVEN PINKER

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the ...
JOHN STEINBECK

I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophisi...
WILL SELF

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.
IMMANUEL KANT

And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the inde...
RUTH CLAMPETT

We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in th...
KENNETH BURKE

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. ...
NANCY PEARCEY

If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET

This is one of the most significant changes in the history of our sport. The World Marathon Majors S...
DAVE BEDFORD

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical...
TALCOTT PARSONS

From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith...
MICHAEL SHERMER

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explai...
WILLIAM WHEWELL

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions b...
JOHN FISKE

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twi...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader...
ALAN HUFFMAN

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empiri...
ROBERT NOZICK

It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathema...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell...
GARY WEISS

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have somethi...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins t...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

There is little empirical evidence that widespread abuses such as naked short-selling are occurring.
LARRY THOMPSON

When everything is said and done, all we have left is the content of our character and the quality o...
JAMES P KREHBIEL

It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empiri...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretati...
TALCOTT PARSONS

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. ...
RAY BRADBURY

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

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