Carl Hempel Quotes

#1. People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Dennis Prager

#2. I'm not so think as you drunk I am !

John Squire

#3. Let's start again. Hi, I'm Samirah al-Abbas... You can call me Sam. Everyone does. I'll be your Valkyrie this evening. Pleased to meet you properly... I will now escort you to dinner." She forced a smile. "If you embarrass me, I'll be the first to kill you.

Rick Riordan

#4. Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Elvis Costello

#5. The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#6. You're going to break his heart, Abby. You're going to break his heart! The one girl he trusts enough to fall for, and you're going to nail him to the wall!

Jamie McGuire

#7. The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#8. The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.

Julie Klausner

#9. Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

Harry Houdini

#10. A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

Carl Gustav Hempel

#11. [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

James Kelman