Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think...#Imre Lakatos
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.#Imre Lakatos
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean...#Imre Lakatos
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most...#Imre Lakatos
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.#Imre Lakatos
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of...#Imre Lakatos
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts....#Imre Lakatos
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the...#Imre Lakatos
