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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
"IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success."
"The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance."
"The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan 'b'. For those troubling occasions when plan 'b' didn't work, he would strive to also have a plan 'c' in place. In short, he was the kind of man who always had something up his sleeve besides his funny bone. The pilot, his trusted second man gave him a worried look. "What do we do now?"
"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."
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"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"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."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"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."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"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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