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.

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

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.

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language.

There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.

Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.