“ The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone. Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ Somewhere among the commotion I grew rather depressed. The depression stayed with me for over a year; it was like an animal, a well-defined, spatially localizable thing. I would wake up, open my eyes,… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historic… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only o… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ In the first case it emerges that the evidence that might refute a theory can often be unearthed only with the help of an incompatible alternative: the advice (which goes back to Newton and which is s… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ The objection that science is self-correcting and thus needs no outside interference overlooks, first, that every enterprise is self-correcting (look at what happened to the Catholic Church after Vati… Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. Paul Karl Feyerabend
“ All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Paul Karl Feyerabend
