“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.”

— Imre Lakatos

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1, 1976, p. 68.

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Hungarian mathematician, philosopher 1921–1974

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