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"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
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"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"Theories pass. The frog remains."
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"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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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."
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"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
Success
"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
"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
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
History
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
Theory
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
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"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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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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