Feyerabend, Paul

"True understanding requires both analysis and intuition."

"We are trapped in history, yet we are free to reinterpret it."

"The simplest explanation is rarely the truest."

"Science advances not through confirmation, but through creative anomaly."

"To accept authority is to abdicate responsibility for thought."

"The criterion for truth cannot itself be known to be true without circularity."

"All cultures have something to teach about how to live."

"The world resists our attempts to systematize it."

"Knowledge is power, but power corrupts knowledge."

"Imagination is prior to reason in the process of discovery."

"We need myths to live, but we must not confuse them with facts."

"The scientist who questions everything is more scientific than one who doesn't."

"Freedom without knowledge is dangerous; knowledge without freedom is sterile."

"What appears irrational may simply be rational in a different framework."

"The pursuit of truth requires the courage to be wrong."

"Institutions tend to perpetuate themselves at the expense of their original purpose."

"The map of knowledge is constantly being redrawn."

"To understand science, one must understand its history."

"Disagreement is the engine of intellectual progress."

"The expert is often the worst judge of innovation in his field."

"Standards are necessary, but standardization stultifies."

"We are all theoretically underdetermined; experience underdetermines interpretation."

"The desire for certainty is the enemy of truth."

"A truly rational person would be paralyzed by the complexity of reality."

"To change the world, one must first change one's way of thinking about it."

"The greatest ideas often come from the margins, not the center."

"Reason and emotion are not opposites; they are partners in understanding."

"The test of a civilization is how it treats its dissenters."

"Nature does not speak to us in the language of our theories."

"To be alive is to be in perpetual conflict with established order."