Feyerabend, Paul

"Simplicity is sometimes a virtue; often it is a vice."

"The success of science owes more to luck than to methodology."

"We are all epistemological anarchists in practice, though few admit it."

"The evidence for a theory is never purely rational."

"Objectivity without subjectivity is impossible."

"The greatest discoveries often come from questioning basic assumptions."

"To be a free thinker, one must first free oneself from the desire to be right."

"Science is a tool, not a gospel."

"What counts as knowledge is determined as much by culture as by nature."

"The universe is far stranger than our theories can capture."

"Skepticism without naivete is the mark of wisdom."

"Innovation requires violating the rules of the establishment."

"The rational mind is a recent and fragile human invention."

"To criticize properly, one must first understand thoroughly."

"Standards constrain thought; but without them, thought has no direction."

"The myth of the scientific method has done great damage to science."

"Truth is pluralistic; there are many ways of being right."

"We confuse the map with the territory at our peril."

"The educated person questions everything, especially education."

"Freedom and order are in eternal tension, not opposition."

"Art and science use different languages to speak truth."

"The refusal to dogmatize is itself a form of wisdom."

"Progress is not inevitable; it requires constant intellectual struggle."

"Coherence is a virtue of theories, not of reality."

"The best science is done by those who love it, not those who serve ideology."

"To live freely, one must live dangerously."

"The universe is indifferent to our theories about it."

"What we call 'objectivity' is often just collective prejudice."

"Tradition has authority only insofar as we grant it."

"The mind is not a mirror of nature; it is a participant in nature."