There Is No Falsification Before The Emergence

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.

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.

There Is No Falsification Before The Emergence Of A Better Theory.

Belief May Be A Regrettably Unavoidable Biological Weakness To Be Kept Under The Control Of Criticism: But Commitment Is For Popper An Outright Crime.