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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 followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook.

Paul Feyerabend's Popular Quotes

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

- Paul Feyerabend

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

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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…

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

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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, …

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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…

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

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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…

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

- Paul Feyerabend