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Imre Lakatos Quotes on Truth

Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-British philosopher of mathematics and science. This page collects quotes attributed to Imre Lakatos on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Imre Lakatos:

    “Science is a research programme, not an isolated theory.”

  • Attributed to Imre Lakatos:

    “A research programme is progressive when it predicts novel facts.”

  • Attributed to Imre Lakatos:

    “The history of science is the history of competing research programmes.”

  • Attributed to Imre Lakatos:

    “Falsification alone cannot capture the rationality of science.”

  • Attributed to Imre Lakatos:

    “Mathematics is created by an open process of proofs and refutations.”