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“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
“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”
― Against Method
― Against Method
“Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you’re an alien. For an English woman, it’s as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it’s as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.”
― How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
― How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
“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
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