In the late 19th century Clerk Maxwell rejected this ultra-simple, negative and not possibly justified view in physics and so did Willard Gibbs, the great Yale chemist; Peirce, himself a chemist (as well as several other kinds of empirical scientist, also mathematician, logician, and philosopher) radically repudiated determinism. (religion-online.org)
The Scholastics took the «beyond - mental», that is objective, world seriously, as docontemporary empirical scientists, and for the Scholastics, real knowledge comes by way of essence. (faith.org.uk)
The attraction between the resolutely empirical scientist and his «spiritual,» hippy - dippy girlfriend gives the film an unpredictable quality: This is an art - house effort, so we know we're all sophisticated and dismissive when it comes to supernatural jibber jabber, and yet the girl seems to be leading the way to some weird new testament or revelation. (nypost.com)