Essentials Quote by Paul Feyerabend

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious"…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Science’s best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism.”

— Gary B. Ferngren

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by…

— Max Horkheimer

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

— Jean Piaget

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

— Freeman Dyson

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and…

— Huston Smith

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it…

— Bertrand Russell

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

— Thomas Kuhn

It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to…

— Loren Eiseley