"All religions are good 'in principle' - but……" — Paul Feyerabend
"All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards."
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26 Quotes by Paul Feyerabend
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The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the…
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Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only…
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Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern)…
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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is…
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on…
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The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
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Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...
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My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to…
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I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors…
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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers;…
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Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only…
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It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth.…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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