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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. -- Ann Landers
There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. -- Ken Kaess
The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. -- Rebecca Goldstein
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue. -- Dalai Lama
I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy. -- Richard Thaler
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. -- Alexander Cockburn
It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence. -- John Quiggin
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values. -- Kenneth D. Wald
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. -- Terry Pratchett
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society. -- Max Horkheimer
I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief. -- Kent Hovind
Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate. -- Dan Sperber
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life. -- Michael Jensen
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction. -- John Quiggin
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy? -- Robert Todd Carroll
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming. -- Joanne Nova
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence. -- Michael Harner
When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation, see what happens, then I'll draw a conclusion based on the empirical evidence. Hypothesis: I can play basketball." So I'd try. "Conclusion: I cannot play basketball." -- Demetri Martin
The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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
These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology. -- David Limbaugh

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