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[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

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Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

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No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

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If 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.

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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

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