Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund HusserlIn a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Edmund HusserlPure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
Edmund HusserlWe would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
Edmund Husserl