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Imre Lakatos Quotes

Hungarian - Philosopher | November 9, 1922 - February 2, 1974

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

Science History Blind Philosophy

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.

Faith Truth Power Science Energy

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

Better Theory Before Emergence

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.

Growth Character Facts New Idea Our

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

Point Technical Between About Mere

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

Commitment Blind Intellectual Virtue

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.

Knowledge Think Results Now Again

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

Naive Experiment Theory Between

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.

Power Research Wrong Point Exhausted

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

Positive Research Negative Also

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

Research Theory Successful Example

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

Positive Ocean Confused Becoming

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