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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Book by Imre Lakatos · 6 quotes · Theory, Programmes, Research

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“One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.”

“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.”