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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. -- Bill Watterson
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. -- William James
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. -- Alexis Carrel
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant. -- Max Horkheimer
Utilitarians are usually empiricists who think they can solve every problem by accumulating enough empirical facts. They do not realize that thinking as well as experience is necessary to know anything or get anything right. -- Allen W. Wood

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