Imre Lakatos

Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science
9 November 1922 — 2 February 1974

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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.

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