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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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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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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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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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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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.
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So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
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Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
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I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a hatred of foreigners. After I stated writing the story there was not a foreigner to be had. I did not want to just stick one in there so I could get a title out of it since it seemed like cheating. I never figured out how I could get out of this dilemma so I just called it X and weaved X traits into the story.
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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 :
