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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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"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."
"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."
"The right priorities in planning will help you to avoid fuss, tiredness and overwork."
"You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal."
"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."
"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"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."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"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."
"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."
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