Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre LakatosMan's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
Imre LakatosIntellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
Imre LakatosOne 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.
Imre Lakatos