Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre LakatosIn degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts
Imre LakatosMathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.
Imre LakatosIf 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