“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.” Has BeensMightScienceResultsProgressEventsContraryEvidentGroundedMight Have BeenAvoidedViolationScientific MethodPlausibleInsufficientEpistemologyInattention Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.” WorldWayDifferentFactsProblemPiecesEventsInformationSourceBenefitsAccountsDetailsListsBest WayCuriousDifferent WaysUniformsCoincidenceDomainComprehensivePresenting Book:Farewell to Reason Source: Farewell to Reason
“It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.” WorldFactsTogetherViewsEventsTheoryUnityDeeperVarietyAssumptionSurroundFactualWorld View Author:Paul Feyerabend
“Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.” ScienceCertainEventsRevolutionDevelopmentDecidedBoundsObviousBrokeThinker Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
