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"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
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"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."
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"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
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"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
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"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology."
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"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"
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"I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it."
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"You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others."
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"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."
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"I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation."
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"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
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
Planning
"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
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
Success
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
Positive
"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
"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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"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
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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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