"empirically discovered" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means that something was discovered through observation or experience rather than theory or speculation. Example: The scientist's theory was empirically discovered through years of experiments and observations in the field.
We empirically discovered that any load less than 150g may be acceptable for functional throwing.
This would lead to increase in the mean free path lengths at low energies, the well-known phenomena empirically discovered in the Leaky-Box models, thus producing less secondary nuclei.
The present study describes an empirically discovered phenomenon that might be useful for development of a sensitive and rapid methodology for quantification of telomerase activity assay with simple data acquisition and possibility for calculation of telomerase product in absolute units.
Many working on this project hold that the empirically discovered variation in intuitions gives us reason to believe that intuitions are unreliable (Alexander et al. 2010).
Then, EDS found AFs which were close to the empirically discovered Scheirer-inspired feature, although they had been improved with additional operators.
Provably we have the following results which were established by factorization of lattice sums after being empirically discovered by the methods described in the next few sections.
Due to the modular nature of our platform, we can produce antibodies bearing the aldehyde tag at a variety of locations, enabling us to empirically discover ideal conjugation sites.
Mr. Coleman has discovered empirically what Kathleen L. Valley, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, has shown experimentally.
The mind is fundamentally a rational structure, and rational connections are a priori, rather than having to be discovered empirically, as causal connections are.
At an early date they discovered empirically that the basic intervals of Greek music include the elements of the tetraktys, since they have the proportions 1 2 (octave), 3 2 (fifth), and 4 3 (fourth).
One might initially suppose that since the statement 'Hesperus = Phosphorus' was only discovered empirically to be true, it must be contingently true.
