It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme because some… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
