[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
Recent empirical studies, however, show such short run effects become small because the exchange rate pass-through to import prices declines.
Andrew Groves
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
John Fiske
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven`t given much thought to the connections.
Andrei Illarionov
Nine years ago you would never have heard of this. We have no empirical data, but you go to a conference and you hear people talking about this more and more. I`d say the numbers have probably increased dramatically.
Jim Nabors
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Alex Thiermann
[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
