Imre Lakatos Quotes
For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
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I like to keep my wheels on the ground.
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All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.
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People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.
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Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.
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For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :
