
“Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.”
Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)
... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
Pure Phenomenology, 1917
[…] 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
“Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.”
Discrepancies among the Social Sciences (1981)
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 9)
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Context: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
“Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 7.
“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
The Physical Basis of Mind (1877; repr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891) p. 4
Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), Ch. 1 : Experience as evidence
Context: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences.
“In science… the ultimate judges are not experts but experiments.”
Source: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987), Ch.13 Light as Lumps
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
“If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?”
Attributed to Bernal in: Gary Werskey (1978) The visible college. p. 137