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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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"Before you start working hard on your goals and dreams, be very sure that you have the right information. Working hard on the wrong plan or information would never take you anywhere. Learn from the great people that came before you."
"Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
"Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future."
"Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product."
"You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life."
"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't."
"Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure."
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"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."
"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."
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"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."
"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."
"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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