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"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
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"Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative."
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"I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative."
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"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."
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"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe."
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"Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures."
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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."
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"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."
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"The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always."
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"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
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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
"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
"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
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
Theory
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
Planning
"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."
Knowledge
"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."
Creativity
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
History
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
Success
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