The Classical Example Of A Successful Research

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.

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.

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.

Einstein's Results Again Turned The Tables And Now Very Few Philosophers Or Scientists Still Think That Scientific Knowledge Is, Or Can Be, Proven Knowledge.