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• The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and…
• Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but…
• Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or…
• No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.…
• It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive…
• The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
• Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...
• My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the…
• I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when…
• The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are…
• Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it…
• It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is…

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