"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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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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

Faith

"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."

Power

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

Negative

"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."

Theory

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

Theory

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

Planning

"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."

Knowledge

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

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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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