Criticism Quote by Imre Lakatos

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

— Imre Lakatos

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

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

— 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…

— Imre Lakatos

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

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

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

— Imre Lakatos

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

— 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…

— Imre Lakatos

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

— Imre Lakatos

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

— 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…

— Imre Lakatos