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“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”
 
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Name:   Imre Lakatos
 
Nationality:   Hungarian
 
Date of Birth:   Nov 9, 1922
 
Date of Death:   Feb 2,  1974
 
Profession:   Philosopher
 
 
 
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
 
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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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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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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
 
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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.
 
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