Empiricism
Empiricism holds that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience. Bacon, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume established it as the foundation of the scientific method.
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"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."
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🇬🇧Francis Bacon
Literature
empiricism
1909–1992
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."
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🇿🇦David Hume
Philosophy
Empiricism
1796–1864
"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."
127 quotes
Thomas Hobbes
Philosophy
empiricism
1588–1679
"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."
86 quotes
🇬🇧Roger Bacon
Philosophy
Empiricism
1214–1294
"Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet , and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them."
16 quotes
🇩🇪George Berkeley
Philosophy
Empiricism
1685–1753
"Abstract terms should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."
26 quotes
🇬🇧Francis Bacon (artist)
Philosophy
empiricism
1561–1626
"Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas."
8 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur."
— Francis Bacon, b. 1909View →
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."
— Francis Bacon, b. 1909View →
"I bequeath my soul to God (…). My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age."
— Francis Bacon, b. 1909View →
"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."
— Thomas Hobbes, b. 1588View →
"The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions."
— Francis Bacon, b. 1909View →