Experimental Philosophy Quotes

#1. In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

Isaac Newton

#2. Oh, honey, being scared but still doing the right thing is what being brave is all about.

Kerry Alan Denney

#3. Hopes, wants and wishes, all cast across the night sky with my heart in tow.

Jay Long

#4. I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

Henry L. Stimson

#5. Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

Rudolf Carnap

#6. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.

Jake Vander Ark

#7. It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Thucydides

#8. Don't hate the media; become the media.

Jello Biafra

#9. There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

Amanda Palmer

#10. I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. {William Petty]

Carl Zimmer

#11. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

Thomas Kuhn

#12. [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

George Washington