The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic … - Paul Feyerabend
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic …
- Paul Feyerabend
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain - Paul Feyerabend
No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain
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… - Paul Feyerabend
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…
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, … - Paul Feyerabend
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, …
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… - Paul Feyerabend
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…
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, bu… - Paul Feyerabend
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, bu…
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… - Paul Feyerabend
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…
The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths. - Paul Feyerabend
The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.
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