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 ha….

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings….

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take….

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, bu….

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompat….

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic ….

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure….

Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can….

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths..

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education..

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, ….

Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing….

One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, met….

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be..

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological pre….

Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to keep this ideology an….

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around..

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastard….

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "ob….

The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable diff….