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 don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• 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

• I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• 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

• I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Heart
  • Hilarious

• Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Plan
  • Plays
  • Steve Smith

• If I write the song, I get to name it.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Example

• I was often surprised by the dispassionate way patients’ symptoms were discussed and by how much time was spent on trying to manage their suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behaviors, rather than on understanding the possible causes of their despair and helplessness. I was also struck by how little attention was paid to their accomplishments and aspirations; whom they cared for, loved, or hated; what motivated and engaged them, what kept them stuck, and what made them feel at peace—the ecology of their lives.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Patients
  • Symptoms
  • Ecology

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

  

  Imre Lakatos