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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.


Imre Lakatos


#commitment #crime #intellectual #theory #virtue

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.


Imre Lakatos


#energy #even #faith #judging #lies

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.


Imre Lakatos


#differs #epistemological #experiment #indeed #naive

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.


Imre Lakatos


#concept #criterion #empirical #facts #growth

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.


Imre Lakatos


#ever #example #gravitational #most #newton

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.


Imre Lakatos


#better #emergence #theory

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.


Hedy Lamarr


#demille #difference #his #marriage #mr

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.


Joseph Lancaster


#ample #any #children #cost #derived

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.


Ali Landry


#big event #class #event #found #going

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.


Christian Lous Lange


#civilization #community #development #economic #facts