"My intention is not to replace one set……" — Paul Feyerabend
"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 methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits."
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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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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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Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to…
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