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> [Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/indeed-this-epistemological-theory-of-the-relation-between-theory-and/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

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## More by Imre Lakatos

> [In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/in-degenerating-programmes-however-theories-are-fabricated-only-in/)

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> [ The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, \[is\] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/the-history-of-mathematics-lacking-the-guidance-of-philosophy-is/)

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> [Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/mathematics-does-not-grow-through-a-monotonous-increase-of-the-number/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/the-clash-between-popper-and-kuhn-is-not-about-a-mere-technical-point/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/our-empirical-criterion-for-a-series-of-theories-is-that-it-should/)

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> [One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/one-may-rationally-stick-to-a-degenerating-research-programme-until/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/it-would-be-wrong-to-assume-that-one-must-stay-with-a-research/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/the-classical-example-of-a-successful-research-programme-is-newton-s/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/philosophy-of-science-without-history-of-science-is-empty-history-of/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/if-even-in-science-there-is-no-a-way-of-judging-a-theory-but-by/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/the-positive-heuristic-of-the-programme-saves-the-scientist-from/)

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> [Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/blind-commitment-to-a-theory-is-not-an-intellectual-virtue-it-is-an/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/no-experimental-result-can-ever-kill-a-theory-any-theory-can-be-saved/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/intellectual-honesty-consists-in-stating-the-precise-conditions-under/)

[Imre Lakatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-lakatos/)

> [Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-lakatos/indeed-this-epistemological-theory-of-the-relation-between-theory-and/)

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