"The idea of a method that contains firm,……" — Paul Feyerabend
"The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another."
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Paul Feyerabend
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26 Quotes by Paul Feyerabend
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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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