Advancement Quote by Paul Feyerabend

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

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

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

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

— Paul Feyerabend

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

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

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

— Paul Feyerabend

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

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

— Paul Feyerabend

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

— Paul Feyerabend

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

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

— Paul Feyerabend