The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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.
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Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress
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Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
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The progress of science, of good science, depends on novel ideas and on intellectual freedom: science has very often been advanced by outsiders (remember that Bohr and Einstein regarded themselves as outsiders).
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Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
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Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes scientific progress in many areas.
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