"Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments……" — Paul Feyerabend
"Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own."
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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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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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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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