Edmund Husserl Quotes

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

If we are ever to discover the laws of nature, we must do so by obtaining the most accurate acquaintance with the facts of nature, and not by dressing up in philosophical language the loose opinions of men who had no knowledge of the facts

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

The heart of science is measurement.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

The term Science should not be given to anything but the aggregate of the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science has been a discipline in which testability, rather than any ecclesiastical authority or philosophical coherence, has been the measure of a scientific idea’s worth

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.