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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."
"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?"
"Don't live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today."
"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."
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
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"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"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."
"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."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"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."
"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."
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
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