Emergence Quote by Imre Lakatos Download Open image “There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.” — Imre Lakatos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emergence Falsification Theory
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows fairly readily… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
“On the journey of spiritual transformation, you want to lose your baggage. In fact, you want to make sure all of it is lost,… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“An ancient statement declares that “God is no respecter of persons.” What this means at the mystical level is that Spirit/The Universe doesn’t know… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there… exists more and it knows it. It… — Robin Rumi Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Be in the world but not of it; become less attached to outcome and more attuned to outgo, which is the natural radiance of… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money,… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
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