Blind Quote by Imre Lakatos Download Open image “Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.” — Imre Lakatos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blind Character Commitment Crime Intellectual Theory Virtue
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
“I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. — J. D. Trout Copy Share Image
“I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
“The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
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