“Experience by itself is not science.”

... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
Pure Phenomenology, 1917

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[…] bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.

Die reine Phänomenologie, ihr Forschungsgebiet und ihre Methode, Freiburger Antrittsrede 1917. In: Husserliana, Band XXV, Aufsätze und Vorträge (1911-1921), Hrsg. von Thomas Nenon und Hans Rainer Sepp, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987, ISBN 90-247-3216-6, S. 79 https://books.google.de/books?id=9BITAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Blo%C3%9Fe+Erfahrung+ist+keine+Wissenschaft%22

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German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology 1859–1938

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