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Empiricism Quotes

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition"
Adam Smith
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Carl Sagan
"Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence"
Richard Dawkins
"The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation."
David Hume
"When scientific evidence is given, reasoning is paramount."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Experience seems to most of us, for instance, to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
George Santayana
"Empiricism is overrated in the sense that it doesn’t predict future events well"
Paul Graham
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