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• It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature…
• No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by…
• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power,…
• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy…
• The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they…
• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
• Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the…
• That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

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