Empirically Quotes

#1. A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

George Oppen

#2. We've found, empirically, that long-term revenue growth - particularly organic revenue growth - is the most important driver of shareholder returns for companies with high returns on capital.

Tim Koller

#3. Empirically, the home had been designed to suit its purpose, and it did so quite well. It was a place where dreams died and fantasies came true.

Joseph DiFrancesco

#4. The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.

Ernest Becker

#5. These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

Alfred Korzybski

#6. In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Talcott Parsons

#7. You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

Darin Strauss

#8. Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

Paul Graham

#9. Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

Catharine MacKinnon

#10. Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Bob Geldof

#11. But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Jock Sturges

#12. Instinctively and empirically we know that stories have the power and the potential to capture hearts and imaginations - we're just not sure how or why this is so.

Sarah Arthur

#13. Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Maggie Nelson

#15. To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Ched Myers

#16. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

#17. It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

Jonathan Ive

#18. The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Talcott Parsons

#19. Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#20. God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Criss Jami

#21. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist.

Tina Fey

#22. I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.

Hilary Kornblith

#23. Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#24. What makes humans valuable in the first place? Science can't answer that question because science deals only with things we can measure empirically though the senses. If you want an answer, you'll have to do metaphysics.

Scott Klusendorf

#25. The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Brian Eno

#26. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#27. Beauty ... cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Wendell Berry

#28. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

#29. The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.

Gareth J. Nelson

#30. What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino

#31. But from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.

Stacy Schiff

#32. We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.

James O'Shaughnessy

#33. I continued to wonder what exactly I had done to deserve a woman like Valerie. Nothing, probably. I observe the world as it unfurls, I thought; proceeding empirically, in good faith, I observe it; I can do no more than observe.

Michel Houellebecq

#34. It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

Nido R. Qubein

#35. Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett