#arc

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. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#been #before #degeneration #everybody #exhausted

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

— Imre Lakatos

#ever #example #gravitational #most #newton

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time. ↗

— Greg Lake

#although #box #caught #direction #fireworks

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. ↗

— George Lamming

#future #gone #hardly #only #our

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#depths #does #environment #explore #food

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#economic #forward #hand #internationalism #isolationism

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#been #beginnings #character #completely #disappear

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#culture #gift #god #individualistic #narcissist

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#empire #ethically #faith #give #immortality

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #architecture #else #every #himself