Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

Alan Huffman
Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

Ann Landers
Ann Landers

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

Carl Hart
Carl Hart

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

Carl Hart
Carl Hart

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.

Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

Daniel Everett
Daniel Everett

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often.