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

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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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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

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"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

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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 supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."

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

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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 must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."

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"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."

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

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"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."

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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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"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."

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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 character are soldered into one."

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