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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."
"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."
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"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."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"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."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"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."
"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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