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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
George C. Williams /
Capable
Circumstances
Numbers
Theory
Variation
Darwin
Empirical
Favorable
Generalizations
Increasing
Inherited
Organism
Strictly
Sufficiently
Variations
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Ageing
Humans
Be True
Biological
Empirical
Measure
Medicines
Modified
Suggest
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I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.
Pawel Pawlikowski / Filmmaker
Documentaries
Following
Empirical
Literary
Impose
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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 / Philosopher
Continuity
Data
Philosophy
Theoretical
Thinking
Account
Empirical
Hypotheses
Philosophers
Scientists
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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Broke
Hours
Mayhem
Montreal
Order
Police
Rioting
Tests
Convictions
Within
Had
Pretty
Empirical
Instilled
Restore
Strike
Subjected
Test
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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 / Professor
Data
Disappointed
Groups
Large Groups
Psychoanalysis
People More Trying
Analyzed
Collect
Empirical
People Trying More
Patients
Primarily
Scientific
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My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well. My theory goes on to say that after having a nice meal of rice, one feels lethargic and don't think of work. When you don't think of work, you think of art.
Sudha Murty /
Developing
Rice
Empirical
Meal
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What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.
Abhijit Banerjee /
Experiments
Tied
Closely
Empirical
Experiment
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Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
Paul Kalanithi /
Beauty
Science
Data
Envy
Hate
Honor
Human Life
Inability
May
Organize
Suffering
Virtue
Weakness
Life Love Hope
Beauty Life Love
Most
Aspects
Useful
Central
Empirical
Human
Grasp
Striving
Provide
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Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.
David Stras /
Decision
Evidence
Judicial
Party
Political
President
Senate
Control
Analyzed
Collected
Retire
Empirical
Factor
Pensions
Political Party
Scientists
The Most Important
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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
Jose Padilha / Film Director
Capable
Objectivity
People
Possibility
Principles
Checking
Deciding
Different People
Empirical
Observations
Principle
Theories
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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Rick Perlstein / Historian
Conclusion
Dignity
Volition
Convictions
Empirical
Swallow
Traces
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Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.
Charles Murray /
Chaos
Growing Up
Large Numbers
Moral
Numbers
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Adult
Male
Boy
Empirical
Large
Little Girls
Statement
Young Men
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Believe
Civilization
Decline
Father
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Thousand
Bet
Centuries
Empirical
Per
Sign
Sure Sign
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I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
Morrissey /
Patriotism
Dazzling
Foul
Free Press
Olympics
Naturally
Due
Empirical
Event
Press
Royals
Unable
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Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.
Huston Smith / Professor
Our Lives
Senses
Connect
Empirical
Immediately
Physical
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I said Donald Trump could never be elected, confidently fueled by the empirical data of professional polling, a certainty in the vital necessity of field operations, and the knowledge his own campaign team (even on the night of the election) was ratting out the shambolic train wreck his campaign had been. I was wrong.
Rick Wilson /
Certainty
Operations
Polling
Confidently
Donald Trump
Empirical
Fueled
Vital
Wreck
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The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven to the satisfaction of the empirical observer.
Sherwin B. Nuland / Surgeon
Ascendancy
Explanation
Method
Natural Phenomena
Proven
Refusal
Remarkable
Revolution
Satisfaction
Transformation
Approximately
Empirical
Phenomena
Observer
Occurred
Scientific
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During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.
Paul Kalanithi /
Failure
Arsenal
Atheism
Blind
Blind Faith
Christianity
Cosmos
Enlightened
Faithful
Proof
Reason
Unreasonable
God Faith Believe
Against
Free
Coherent
Cut
Empirical
Grounds
Leveled
Offered
Primary
Razor
Surely
Therefore
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Frank Ocean / Singer
Focus
Math
People
Problem
Symmetry
Life Music People
Itself
Getting
Empirical
Guess
Life Is A
Route
Some People
Story
Vibe
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It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.
Werner Heisenberg / Physicist
Concepts
Constructs
Data
Entering
Mathematical
Believed
Directly
Draw
Observed
Empirical
Formulate
Generally
Introduce
Natural Laws
Quantities
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In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos.
Timothy Morton /
Legal
Lawyer
Possession
Transcendental
Argue
Legal Me Lawyer
Correct
Define
Empirical
Fun Thing
Regarding
Signal
Supposedly
Zoo
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