If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas… — 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
