"Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise..." — Paul Feyerabend
"Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise..."
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Paul Feyerabend
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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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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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Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to…
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More Anarchic Quotes
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city,…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen…
— Unknown Author
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is…
— Bertrand Russell
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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
— Plato
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it…
— Sri Aurobindo
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our…
— Jay Griffiths
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Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they…
— Naomi Wolf
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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has…
— Graham Joyce
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
— Sadie Frost
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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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