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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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Difficult to Say Categorically Whether the Earth Moves
...it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...
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.
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...
Source: Scientific American
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...
Source: Saint Joan (play)
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But Never Feel the Earth Spinning Around
Night after night, watching the sky move - But never feel the earth spinning around
Source: Learning to See by Van Halen
I Could Feel the Whole World Turn Round Underneath Me
I could feel the whole world turn round underneath me
Source: I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round by Rod Stewart (The Shotgun Express)
When the Earth Folded In on Itself
Will you tell me what you saw, and I'll tell you what you missed, when the ocean met the sky - You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye - When the Earth folded in on itself
Source: Ocean Breathes Salty by Modest Mouse
You’re Tellin’ Me the World Does Not Even Spin Around?
You're tellin' me the world does not even spin around? You're tryna say the car we're sittin' in don't belong to gravity?
Source: We Didn’t Make It To The Moon by Milky Chance
The Boys in the Bubble, They Wanna Be Free
The boys in the bubble, they wanna be free, and they got so blind that they cannot see
Source: Turn Up the Sun by Oasis
We’re Seeing Things in a Different Way
There's something wrong with the world today I don't know what it is Something's wrong with our eyes We're seeing things in a different way And God knows it ain't his
Source: Livin’ On The Edge by Aerosmith
Snap Back to Reality, Oh, There Goes Gravity
Snap back to reality, oh, there goes gravity
Source: Lose Yourself by Eminem
I Never Believed in Things That I Couldn’t See
I never believed in things that I couldn't see, I said if I can't feel it then how can it be - No, no magic could happen to me, and then I saw you
Source: You Can Do Magic by America
We Are Turning with the Earth So Fast
We are turning with the earth so fast - but it feels a lot slower
Source: Left & Right In the Dark by Julian Casablancas
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My Friends Would Think I Was a Nut
When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.
Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
The More You Change, the Less You Feel
And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same.
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning
And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.
We Just Want To Dance Here, Someone Stole the Stage
We’re seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain’t his.
We Built This City on Rock and Roll
…how different theories are suddenly introduced to add strength to the edifice.
But I Feel It Still…
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling. Listen to reason, reason is calling.