#be

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#event #fact #label #political #schizophrenia

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

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. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#energy #even #faith #judging #lies

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

— Imre Lakatos

#differs #epistemological #experiment #indeed #naive

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago. ↗

— Ray Brown

#always #best #best time #buy #five

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#became #because #compassionate #i #lesbian

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

— Imre Lakatos

#between #clash #epistemology #mere #point

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#confused #heuristic #ocean #positive #programme

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

— Imre Lakatos

#better #emergence #theory

There is no standing still because time is moving forward. ↗

— Greg Lake

#forward #moving #moving forward #standing #still