Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian Philosopher of Mathematics and Science
"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. "
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. "