Quote by Lakatos, Imre
"The duty of the scientist is not to defend the tradition but to challenge it creatively."
More from Lakatos, Imre
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
"Science grows by the process of rational criticism and the elimination of error."
"The history of science is a history of competing research programmes."
"Criticism is the lifeblood of science."