Topic: “Empiricism”

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Empiricism

The character of being empirical; reliance on direct experience and observation rather than on theory.

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He Must Have Built It All for Us

If He put us on center stage, He must have built it all for us.

from The Language of God by Francis S. Collins

The Curve? I’ve Not Seen That Yet

The Curve? I've not seen that yet.

Difficult to Say Categorically Whether the Earth Moves

...it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...

from The Discovery of Dynamics by Julian Barbour

Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

from 1984 by George Orwell

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I Can Feel the Earth Moving

I can feel it. I can feel the earth moving. It’s moving too fast. Raj, slow it down.

Source: The Big Bang Theory

You’re a Scientist. Stop Guessing. Know. Or Be Quite. That Is All.

You're a scientist. Stop guessing. Know. Or be quite. That is all.

Source: Prey

The Secret Teachers of the Western World

Accepted Only That Which It Could See and Touch

Since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, modern science has focused on the kind of “facts” that can be grasped by the senses and proven by measurement. It abandoned the religious explanations for the world, which posited an unseen God...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman

It Just Seemed So Utterly Obvious That the Sun Revolved Round a Static Earth

Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

Not upon Any Theory or Abstract Model of the Universe

It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon "the Alexandrine" cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to...

Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith

We Are Using Philosophical Criteria in Choosing Our Models

"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations," Ellis argues. "For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based...

They Had at Least the Evidence of Their Senses

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give...