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

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

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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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"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

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

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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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"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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