Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Paul Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend -
Progress
Quotes
8 Sourced Quotes
View all Paul Feyerabend Quotes
Source
Report...
The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes "scientific progress" in many areas.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.
Paul Feyerabend
Source
Report...
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.
Paul Feyerabend
Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Paul Feyerabend
Creative Commons
Born:
January 13, 1924
Died:
February 11, 1994
(aged 70)
More about Paul Feyerabend...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes