Hungarian Quotes

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

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.

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.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Macho does not prove mucho.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.