There Is No Falsification Before The Emergence

The Great Scientific Achievements Are Research Programmes Which Can Be Evaluated In Terms Of Progressive And Degenerative Problemshifts; And Scientific Revolutions Consist Of One Research Programme Superceding (overtaking In Progress) Another. This Methodology Offers A New Rational Reconstruction Of Science.

Mathematics Does Not Grow Through A Monotonous Increase Of The Number Of Indubitably Established Theorems But Through The Incessant Improvement Of Guesses By Speculation And Criticism, By The Logic Of Proofs And Refutations.

Blind Commitment To A Theory Is Not An Intellectual Virtue: It Is An Intellectual Crime.

The Classical Example Of A Successful Research Programme Is Newton's Gravitational Theory: Possibly The Most Successful Research Programme Ever.

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.