"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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Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

Imre Lakatos

#Would Be Quotes #Heuristics Quotes #Research Quotes

“There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.”
“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”
“The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.”
“Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org
“Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

Source : Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.”
“My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.”
“On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama is not a confrontational man. He stayed away from all confrontations, and you can look and see what happened overseas. It's a mess everywhere. So he made major mistakes, major policy mistakes. Those mistakes are not going to be forgiven by history.”

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