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“Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.” quote by Imre Lakatos — Download Open image

“Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.”

Imre Lakatos

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In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

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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…

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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…

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

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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical…

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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…

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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one…

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

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

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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its…

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

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

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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

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God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic…

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play…

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