Empirical Data Quotes

#1. The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology is free to run wild.

R.C. Sproul

#2. That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were.

Rupert Thomson

#3. I've created a monster"
"No you just released one.

Marta Acosta

#4. If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Mitch Kapor

#5. While the romantics rejected the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, many theologians accepted it and sought to frame the Bible as a set of empirical data.

Joseph Laycock

#6. When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.

Jack Hyles

#7. I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Natalie Merchant

#8. She had always loved the stars. But in the desert of winter it was impossible to forget that they were cold, and distant, and did not care.

Seth Dickinson

#9. Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

Chris Columbus

#10. 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

#11. It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

#12. I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

Augustus Toplady

#13. I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Merton Miller

#14. But just because death was unsavory didn't make it any less of a choice, and one day soon, I'd give in to it. Just not today.

Pepper Winters

#15. Before gathering any data, one must have concepts about the data being gathered. These are conceptual categories, meanings, and relationships that are all pre-empirical. They are purely theoretical. Imagine

Steve Patterson

#16. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.

Geoff Watts

#17. And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you ... none of the rest of this will matter.

Ruth Clampett

#18. CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," which reiterated Fischer Black's (1993) feeling, "I find theory to be far more powerful than data.

Eric G. Falkenstein

#19. Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Michael Crichton

#20. At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging the metaphorical toilet on a daily basis.

Christopher Titus

#21. So how did he look at me?"
"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

#23. 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

#24. The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Diana DeGette