>"What really count are dramatic, unexpected, stunning predictions: a few of them are enough to tilt the balance; where theory lags behind the facts, we are dea

>"What really count are dramatic, unexpected, stunning predictions: a few of them are enough to tilt the balance; where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes." Imre Lakatos. Science and Pseudoscience. From Imre Lakatos, Philosophical Papers, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 1-7. Written in early 1973 http://crl.ucsd.edu/~ahorowit/lakatos.pdf http://crl.ucsd.edu/~ahorowit/lakatos.pdf