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

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

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

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

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.

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

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

The rhythm of a New York summer is passionate and powerful, evoking a rapid calypso, with July being the musical climax.

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .