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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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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Imre Lakatos
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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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
John Burns
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
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The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
John Bright
Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
Richard Shelby
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.
Henry Charles Carey
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
Umberto Guidoni
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William E. Gladstone
I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.
James Irwin
Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
Richard Lugar
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Clayton Christensen
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
Josh McDowell
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Pierre de Fermat
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
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