Imre Lakatos famous quotes
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts
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No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
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Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
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Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
-- Imre Lakatos
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