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“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
― A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
“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 of unexamined systems.”
― Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
― Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
“On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.”
― The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
― The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
“All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.”
― Farewell to Reason
― Farewell to Reason
“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”
― Against Method
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