Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
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.
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, …
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…
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…
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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