Imre Lakatos

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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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. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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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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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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