Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
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.
- 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 separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic …
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
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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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