Imre Lakatos Quote

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.


p. 68. - The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1, 1976


It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce...

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce...

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce...

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce...