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"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
"Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more."
"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"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."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"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."
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"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."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"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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