"The only principle that does not inhibit progress……" — Paul Feyerabend
"The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes."
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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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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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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 Anything Goes Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
— Beck
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If…
— Richard Brautigan
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There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past…
— Graydon Carter
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I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
— Carmelo Anthony
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If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.
— Jan Carlzon
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
— Ethel Merman
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My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always…
— Dylan McDermott
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
— Camille Paglia
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When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation…
— Edward Abbey
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We’re stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything…
— Steve Yzerman
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as…
— Graham Swift
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