The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

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.

Sometimes if you want to stand out, you at first have to blend in.

XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn’t choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.