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"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
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"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
"So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested."
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"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"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."
"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."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"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."
"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."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
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