Imre Lakatos Quotes

Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

Imre Lakatos

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• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • You
  • Difference

• Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
  • Care
  • Take Care

• No one is India.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • India

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Know
  • Cash
  • Sheriff

• If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Education
  • Serious

• I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Body
  • Down
  • Forgive

• Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

  

  Ed Case
  • Want
  • Change
  • Vote

• I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Love
  • Home
  • History

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Children
  • Money

• It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who are right with God and right with the world. I don't see that evidence very often.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • People
  • World
  • God

• What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Light
  • Solitude
  • Heat

• I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Red
  • Garden
  • Rose

• I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Law
  • King

• Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Film

• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Country
  • Why

• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Universe

• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Money
  • Gives
  • Great Deal

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos