All Paul Feyerabend Quotes
- The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of… Atheism
- Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… Advancement
- Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… Ancient
- No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… Agree
- It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… All
- The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. Anything Goes
- Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise... Anarchic
- My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all… All
- I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in… Activities
- The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,… Abundance
- Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible… Cope
- 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… Assumed
- Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… Adopt
- The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths. Absolute
- The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with… Absolutely
- No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain Agree
- Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological… Bound
- Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… Accepted
- Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. Alternatives
- The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious… Aggressive
- The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Attempts
- Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress Any
- All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Abstract
- An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and… Agent
- Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once… Brain